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copied!<p>All you need to do is include a target="_blank" in the form on Site A, also the way that the request works on site B the siteSearchUrl input must be included</p> <pre><code><form id="apprenticeForm" action="http://www.apprenticesearch.com/Resources/SiteSearch" method="POST" target="_blank" onsubmit='submitSearch()'> <input type="text" name="searchText" id="searchText" value=""/> <input type="submit" value="Submit"/> <input id="siteSearchUrl" name="siteSearchUrl" type="hidden" value="http://yboss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/limitedweb?format=xml&sites=www.apprenticesearch.com&q="/> </form> </code></pre> <p>Like this <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/MVBLc/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/MVBLc/</a></p> <hr> <p>After playing around with the form submitting, but the q parameter not being read by Site B, I believe it's because the input had escaped <code>&amp;</code> instead of '&'. </p> <p>I've updated the HTML, and here's the javascript to update the field before submitting the form</p> <pre><code>function submitSearch() { q = document.getElementById("searchText").value; document.getElementById("siteSearchUrl").value = 'http://yboss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/limitedweb?format=xml&sites=www.apprenticesearch.com&q=' + q; return true; } </code></pre> <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/MVBLc/2/" rel="nofollow">Demo</a> </p> <p>The reason you need to use javascript for the additional input is the same reason why Site B uses javascript to populate siteSearchUrl in their <a href="http://www.apprenticesearch.com/Scripts/apprenticesearch.js" rel="nofollow">script</a> before it sends the request.</p> <p>Looking at how the server works: Site B sends that request to /Resources/SiteSearch where the <code>SiteSearch(String searchtext, String siteSearchUrl)</code> function gets called on their server. If you were to just go straight to that page with no post parameters you will find that a <code>System.ArgumentNullException Parameter name: uriString</code> is thrown for not having siteSearchUrl set from the server.</p> <p>If you want to analyze the parameters of siteSearchUrl:</p> <ul> <li>The URL <code>yboss.yahooapis.com</code> is for <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/boss_api_guide/index.html" rel="nofollow">Yahoo's BOSS</a> API servcie </li> <li>The <code>sites</code> parameter tells the API what site to search and display in the results</li> <li>and the <code>q</code> parameter is what query to search for</li> </ul>

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