note 35417 deleted from tutorial.forms by sean

Note Submitter: RobertMaas at YahooGroups dot Com ---- Regarding debate over GET and POST method: One disadvantage of the POST method is that you can't bookmark it in a URL. So if you want ot make a URL that bookmarks both the WebPage and some form contents, you have to use the GET method, i.e. webpage?formcontents. Warning, the Apache server logs the complete URL including formcontents in a file that anyone can read, so be sure never to include a password in the form in GET method, regardless of whether bookmarked or onetime. For example, my CGI site has a login form, and I have a bookmark for specifying my own (rather long) e-mail address, but do *not* include my password in that bookmark, rather I click on the link and get the login form with my e-mail address already filled in but I still have to type my password, and of course it's a POST instead of GET form when I then submit it with password. http://shell.rawbw.com/~rem/cgi-bin/ LogForm.cgi?id=RobertMaas@YahooGroups.Com (Cliki complained it was too long so I had to split it.)