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Re: amazon search with konqueror shortcuts



On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:42:08PM +0100, Jason Chambers wrote:
> Joerg Johannes wrote:
> >OK, thanks, I think I did not make myself clear enough: What I need is the 
> >correct "search-url" to add to the enhanced browsing dialog. I tried to 
> >figure a general pattern out by doing some searches in "all products", but 
> >the search item does not appear in the url. Only if I search in a certain 
> >category (classics, or sth else), the search item appears in the url.
> >Any idea how to get the correct search-url for "all products"?
> >
> >joerg
> >
> >
> >
> The reason you can't see the search data in the url is because the data 
> is probably being submitted using the POST method (which among other 
> things allows for larger amount of data to be sent).
> 
> The way I get around this is to save a copy of the HTML page to my PC. 
> Open the file in a text editor, and find the <form method=post 
> action=results_url> tag for the relevant search box.  Change the method 
> to be GET, check the value of the action attribute and make sure it is a 
> full url to the page not a relative one (ie it includes 
> http://host.domian/ etc).  If not edit it as necessary.

Another way of doing it is to install a proxy server, run it
temporarily in full log mode, and read the logs.

-- 
Note that I use Debian version 3.0
Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown

Hans Ekbrand

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