Form Handlers
HTML forms and form-handling programs go together. The form is presented to the user on the client machine. The form handler runs on the server after the user fills out the form and presses the submit button. The form presents input widgets like radiobuttons, checkbuttons, selection lists, and text entry fields. Each of these widgets is assigned a name, and each widget gets a value based on the user's input. The form handler is a program that looks at the names and values from the form and computes the next page for the user to read.
CGI is a standard way to hook external programs to web servers for the purpose of processing form data. CGI has a special encoding for values so that they can be transported safely. The encoded data ...
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