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Perl for Web Site Management
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Perl for Web Site Management

by John Callender
October 2001
Beginner
528 pages
15h 20m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The <FORM> Tag’s ACTION Attribute

When an HTML form is submitted, the contents of all the form’s fields are bundled up and handed off to whatever script is specified in the ACTION attribute of the <FORM> tag. In the previous example page, the form is handed off to a script called mail_form.cgi located in the same directory as the form itself.

If you wanted to, you could have put some path information into the ACTION attribute and handed the form off to a script in a different directory. You could even have given a full URL (http://www.somewhere.com/somepath/somescript.cgi) and handed the form’s contents off to a script on a completely different server. But I’m digressing. The point is, the ACTION attribute of the <FORM> tag is what determines where the form data goes when the form is submitted.

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