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To the bank, driver, and step on it --#-- I call this technique "stepping," because it involves inserting an extra step into the CGI process. (I use CGI as an example. But this technique can be applied to Java servlets, PHP3, Zope, Cold Fusion, StoryServer, etc.)

The secret is having your CGI spit out a new form page that submits "onLoad" with all the data in hidden fields. See?


#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;
my $query = new CGI;
$name = $query->param('name');
$game = $query->param('game');
$number = $query->param('number);

print $query->header;
print <
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EOT

Try it for yourself here.