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Silent mode to submit a form

daniele.ladelfa
Registered: Aug 28 2008
Posts: 9
Answered

Hi,
I'd like to send data to a server in a silent mode, it's possible?

I mean:

- I'm doing a FDF form submission to a server side PHP script ... and it works.
- It is normal (for my environment) that the server can be down, the script not
to exist or every other network/server related error occurs
- my goal is to hide everything about this submission to the end user, both it
would be successful or failing... nowaday, the reader shows up the server
response or an "page unavailable" message

I'm submitting the form via Javascript (the Submit Button into the Object Library works too of course, but I can't guess any option to achieve my goal), as I hope to try a lower level solution.

The "optimum" would be to have a single "PRINT & submit" button making the FDF sumission behind the curtains and printing the user-filled PDF, no care about the first step result.

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance,
Daniele

thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Nothing that happens to a document can be done completely behind the users back. This would be a security violation. So no, the error message about the server being unavailible cannot be suppressed.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/[/url]

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
www.pdfscripting.com
Very Important - How to Debug Your Script