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In article <1686.6645T919T930@vip.cybercity.dk> bipsen@vip.cybercity.dk (Brian Ipsen) writes:
> I wonder what is happening, when the users clicks on "submit" - I know,
>that the form is handled by the program in /cgi-bin/epdcontest , but
>how does this program get the input from the browser and so on ???

First of all, if you're interested, the documentation is available by
reading the HTTP specification and your WWW server docs.

In case of METHOD=POST, the information is submitted to the server by
the folling data-stream:

--
POST url HTTP/1.0
X-Your-Headers: whatever

field1=content?field2=two+words?field3=foo
--

As opposed to METHOD=GET:

--
GET url?field1=content?field2=two+words?field3=foo HTTP/1.0
X-Your-Headers: whatever

--

On the server side, the difference usually is that METHOD=GET receives
the input in the form of one command line argument, whereas
METHOD=POST reads it from standard input, and thus is not vulnerable
to command line length restrictions or possible command line parsing
by the OS or shell used.

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