Seemingly simple web FORM help request

[RICHARD EDWARDS]

Greetings,

I am trying to create a web page with a form to search our Innovative Interfaces, Inc. catalog for a special purpose outside their normal search pages and I've gotten very close but can't seem to quite get there.

What I'm trying to do is create a subject search where the patron inputs the first part of the data and the form itself supplies additional data which I need appended to the patron input and then submitted to the III catalog for searching.

The current draft looks like this:

<FORM ACTION="http://cals.evergreen.edu/search~s2/d" method=get>
        <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
        <INPUT align=center maxLength=64 name=SEARCH size=50>
		<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="(WASH) -- Newspapers">
        <INPUT type=submit value=Search>

The resulting action, when added to the user input "Milton" creates the URL:
http://cals.evergreen.edu/search~s2/d?SEARCH=Milton&%28WASH%29+--+Newspapers=
which unfortunately comes very close but not quite what III's catalog is looking for.

It breaks down at the "&" between the input values. What I need there is a "+" so the URL reads:
http://cals.evergreen.edu/search~s2/d?SEARCH=Milton+%28WASH%29+--+Newspapers=

That URL works perfectly fine.

Any simple way to achieve this?

joyfully,

Rich Edwards
Innovative Coordinator
Washington State Library
Olympia, WA
redwards at statelib.wa.gov 
(360)704-7136

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