I was interested in getting some feedback on if this approach to hijacking the POST method in the HTML content feature:

The Need: use a Form POST to another listmanager company site to subscribe/unsubscribe users to an email list

The Hack: in the HTML content feature, going into the Source we start off with the tag </FORM> Then the real form info to POST:

</form>

<form action="http://anotherlistmanager.companyName.com/subfolder/subscribe.tml" method="POST">
<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
  <tbody>
   <tr>
    <td align="right">
     Email address:</td>
    <td>
     <input name="email" size="30" type="text" value="" /></td>
    <td>
     &nbsp;</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td align="center" colspan="2">
     <input align="left" alt="subscribe" class="art-button" name="subscribe" title="subscribe" type="submit" value="Join the Email List" /></td>
   </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
<input name="list" type="hidden" value="emaillistName" />  <input name="url" type="hidden" value="http://www.mySite.org/subscription-confirmation.aspx" /></form>

This works great - but we have to remember to enter in the </FORM> at the start as the editor strips it out when it reloads.

We havent found any issues with this approach yet.

But does anyone have any thoughts on if this should not be done in this manner and why not?

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

-- Joe Vago