Is it possible to have or implement a "fall back" internet address in a form? If yes - can someone explain the steps to be undertaken or suggest links?

Or is there a better way?

The plan is to have a hosted site which sends clients to different computers according to what they submit in the forms. These computers are backed up by synchronized computers in different locations.

What we want to do is redirect the traffic to another computer if the one in use gets offline.
So we might have the following code in served HTML pages:

<form method="post" action="http://www.mydomain.org/cgi-bin/myprogr">
but the computer is down and the backup computer has taken over at:
"http://www.otherdomain.org"
so the form should now read:
<form method="post" action="http://www.otherdomain.org/cgi-bin/myprogr">

We could have the backup computer changing the links but I'm sure there must be a true and tried solution to this sort of problems.

Thank you for your help.

You could use some server-side scripting (e.g. PHP) to ping (or http request) the original host, and if it's down output another URL in the "action" attribute.

HTML itself doe not offer fail-over mechanisms for this.

It could be better to use some IP-level fail-over construction, but this will be more complex to implement I think.

Thank you Hko.