back to <FORM METHOD="...">

What is Actually Sent with Each Form Method

GET

GET /cgi-bin/maillist.cgi?realname=Kevin+Burris&email=kevin@idocs.com HTTP/1.0
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Referer: http://www.idocs.com/tags/foo.html
Accept-Language: en
UA-pixels: 640x480
UA-color: color8
UA-OS: Windows 95
UA-CPU: x86
User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.0; Windows 95)
Host: 10.10.10.20
Connection: Keep-Alive

POST

POST /cgi-bin/maillist.cgi HTTP/1.0
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Referer: http://www.idocs.com/tags/foo.html
Accept-Language: en
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
UA-pixels: 640x480
UA-color: color8
UA-OS: Windows 95
UA-CPU: x86
User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.0; Windows 95)
Host: 10.10.10.20
Content-Length: 44
Pragma: No-Cache
Connection: Keep-Alive

realname=Kevin+Burris&email=kevin@idocs.com

Both methods in this example use Url Encoding. The encoding type used is set with the attribute <FORM ENCTYPE="...">.