FAQ/AssurancePrefilledForms

Prefilled CAP Forms

If you need a pre-filled CAP Form you can modify a number of field to suite you needs:

CAP Form

Any field left blank in the URL will be blank on the Form.

Field	Example	Details
name	Peter Pan	The person being assured
dob	1977-12-23	date of birth
email	blah%40example.org	email of the person being assured. %40 is the encoded @ sign. Should work with @ as well
assurer	Susi Meier	name of person doing the assurance
location	Winchester Street 10	location where the assurance is happening
maxpoints	35	maximum points assurer can give
date	2005-06-21	if you send 'now' it will set the servers current date, or you can send a date in iso format
lang	de_DE	the language of the form, not all languages work properly, or have been translated
format	A4	can be left blank and defaults to 'A4', or set to 'letter' for US letter
bw	1	use this flag to use the black/white logo instead of the colored version

Example URL:

https://www.cacert.org/capnew.php?name=Fred+Smith&dob=1970-01-01&email=fred%40example.com&assurer=Joe+Blogs&maxpoints=35&date=now&lang=de_DE&format=letter

Also there is a link when you go to assure someone on the website that will automatically create a link with all the rellivent information so you can print it out and sign it etc... (bottom of the Assurance page)

Prefilled CAP Forms

CAP Form

See also