Passing values from a form and recovering them properly

["JR" <jr@clara.net>]

Hi

Having all sorts of problems with different browsers! Please couldf someone
tell me the correct way to reliably pass form variables and recover their
values on the next page.

Example:

On catalog.html

<FORM action="[process-search]" method="POST">
			<INPUT type="hidden" name="soup" value="Minestrone">
			<INPUT type="hidden" name="mv_orsearch" value="no">
  			<INPUT type="hidden" name="mv_search_page" value="results">
  			<INPUT type="hidden" name="mv_min_string" value="3">
			<INPUT type="hidden" name="mv_matchlimit" value="5">
			<INPUT type="hidden" name="mv_dict_fold" value="yes">
  			<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="mv_searchtype" value="text">
			<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="mv_doit" value="search">
			<INPUT type="image" name="mv_todo" src="/images/go.gif" border="0">
</FORM>

And on Page results.html

WHAT DO I DO TO RELIABLY RECOVER THE VALUE OF THE FORM FIELD
<INPUT type="hidden" name="soup" value="Minestrone">
??????

Neither of these work:
[scratch soup]
[value soup]

This is so simple, yet is driving me mad!!!! Please help.

I am also having endless trouble with Netscape 4.03 getting the [data
session arg] to be passed through pages, and I have got [set
mv_put_session]Yes[/set] on each page. Nothing goes through. Are these
things connected??

Jerry
jr@mail.org