Get Method of Data Submission

The GET method is so called because the browser uses the HTTP GET command to submit the data.

The GET command sends a URL to the web server. That means that if you want to send a form's contents to the server using the GET method, the browser must include all data in the URL.

The key features of the GET method are as follows: <br><br> The values of all the fields are concatenated to the URL specified in the
ACTION attribute of the <FORM> tag. Each field's value appears in the
name=value format (you specify each field's name with the NAME attribute
of various elements, such as <INPUT>, <SELECT> and <TEXTAREA>,
that constitute an HTML form.
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To ensure that the web server is not confused by special characters that
may appear on the form's data, any character with special meaning is
encoded using a special encoding scheme.
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For example, the Alta vista web index (http://www.aIta vista. digitaI.com/) uses a form with the GET method of data submission ..When you submit a query With the following search keywords: "fairy tale"+frog dragon the web browser sends the following URL back to the Altavista server: http://www.altavista.digital.com/ cgi bin/query? pg=q&what=web&f mt=. &q= % 22f airy+ta le % 22 + % 2 Bf rog + dragon in this URL, everything following the question mark (?) constitutes form data Each field is separated by an ampersand (&). Each blank space is converted to a plus sign I+): an actual plus sign becomes %2B (that means ASCII code 2B is hexadecimal): and each double quote is changed to %22<p align="justify">
Use the GET method if you want to access the CGI form without using a form. For Example, if you want to access a CGI program at the URL.

http://www.someplace.com/cgi bin/dbquery with afield named "keyword" as input, you could invoke the CGI program with the URL such as:

http://www.someplace.com/cgi bin/dbquery? keyword= linux

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