Solved Re: amazon search with konqueror shortcuts
Am Samstag, 6. April 2002 16:42 schrieb Jason Chambers:
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> > Any idea how to get the correct search-url for "all products"?
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> 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.
>
> Save the page and view it in a browser. Now any data submitted from your
> local copy of the page will get sent as part of the url and thus you can
> then figure out what you need to set in Konqueror.
>
> Some site may rely on session ids in the form data and submitting a form
> without it (or an expired one) may just bounce you to another page, but
> usually this is only for sites that require you to log in.
>
> Hope That Helps
OK, thank you very much for telling me these tech-details. It is definitely
worth trying it out.
...
==> The correct search-url is
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=blended&field-keywords=\1
Bye
joerg
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