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Forms

Forms are one way the World Wide Web allows users to submit information to servers. All the mechanisms described so far allow users to choose from a set of available options. Forms let the user type information into their web browser and then get the server to run a program with their submission as input. Examples of things you might type are keys to search a database (e.g. what films was Zazu Pits in?).





Jon Crowcroft
Wed May 10 11:46:29 BST 1995