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Acquiring a submitted form name

Almost embarassed to ask but since it's such a basic form manipulation issue I ought to know about...

Is there a Perlish way of acquiring a submitted form name so that I may differentiate between differing forms or am I going to have to use hidden fields for this purpose? (hidden fields was the only Google result I could find)

Solution

  • No. Browsers do not send the name of a form in HTTP requests.

    It exists only for use with client-side scripting (and is obsoleted by id and class).