form value

I have problems passing values from a form to a php script page. The problems are 2: 1) One value is a string that is inputed through a <input type="text"> box, the value is a URL link, the link is passed to the next page in the URL, but the script receives an empty string. 2) This form has a textarea that is very big in amount of text. Is there another way to send variable information, easlly, without putting it on the URL? P.D.: Another problem I had was that I couldn't make IE5 authenticate with the normal html authentification headers (Netscape works OK). IE3 didn't work either. Thanks!!!!!! -- "And I'm happy, because you make me feel good, about me." - Melvin Udall ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués email: martin@math.unl.edu.ar Santa Fe - Argentina http://math.unl.edu.ar/~martin/ Administrador de sistemas en math.unl.edu.ar -----------------------------------------------------------------