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Submitting a form; tracking its path

If I submit a form online, is it possible to track where the data is going? I know that I can see the "POST" and form actions fields, but it doesn't seem to be true for all forms; in that having that value doesn't necessarily mean that is the final destination.

I'm specifically interested in forms that submit to an e-mail address.

Does cURL or Perl have something available for tracking or "watching" the process?

I tried Fiddler, but it did not provide any conclusive data.

ahoffmann

from which side do you want to track: server or client?
on client you can use fiddler, or LiveHTTPheader in FF, or any proxy local on your client
if you're interested in blocking tracking requests, I suggest using privoxy

Dave Baldwin

Other than forms submitted by javascript, the 'action' page is where the data goes. You can't track it after that because it's on the server and that's not something you can see from outside. And the only way forms submit directly to an email address is with a 'mailto' action link. Every other method has to be processed on the server.

Bobo--just_East_of_Madison

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And I would need to view the server logs to view the action on the server side, or is there another way? (I have access to server logs and such.)

I want to review submissions for the past six months, but server logs for that time period are extremely difficult to navigate and search for considering the amount of traffic I receive.

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