I'm not sure the best place to ask this...not even sure the best way to ask it.
I manage a library website, and there are a number of different database products that can be searched. I'm trying to build a black box application to sit behind the home page. Here's an example of what might get submitted to said application.
searchType = "books"
searchEngine = "library catalog"
keywords = "some keywords"
See, the idea is that I might be doing various search boxes throughout the site, and I want to keep the actual HTML forms as simple as possible and simply let an ASP.Net application do the rest of the work. For example, figuring out whether or not the search engine using a GET or a POST method, parsing the keywords to determine the best way to render them, and sending the appropriate hidden values.
Probably, most of these databases use GET, so I can simply use a Response.Redirect after creating the query stri ...
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