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Client/server architecture

An HTML form on a web page is nothing more than a convenient user-friendly way to configure an HTTP request to send data to a server. This enables the user to provide information to be delivered in the HTTP request.

SENDING FORM DATA

Form attributes:

1. action = "url : the data will be sent to the specified url / if none to the same page.The action attribute defines where the data gets sent. Its value must be a valid relative or absolute URL. If this attribute isn’t provided, the data will be sent to the URL of the page containing the form — the current page. <form action="/somewhere_else">

2. method = "GET" : is the method used by the browser to ask the server to send back a given resource. Example: <form action="http://www.foo.com" method="GET">

3. method = "POST" : It’s the method the browser uses to talk to the server when asking for a response that takes into account the data provided in the body of the HTTP request Example: <form action="http://www.foo.com" method="POST"> When the form is submitted using the POST method, you get no data appended to the URL.

Form tag attributes:

• action = "/path-to-url"
• method = "GET/POST"
• name = "formName"
• autocomplete = "on/off"
• target = "_blank" (new tab) / "_self" (current tab)
• enctype = "text/plain" (text input form) "multipart/form-data" (forms containing files)