HTML form that submits data to a CGI program

This is a demonstration of an HTML form that passes its data to a CGI program.
'Get' and 'Post' are 2 methods of transferring the data.
You can see the HTML code for this page by selecting the "Source" button on your broswer.

Get passes arguments via the URL (visible to users):

Post passes arguments via STDIN (for larger data, more secure):

http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/
Sep 28, 2004