Converting form submissions into URLs

Some form submissions can be converted into clickable links or bookmark URLs.

Such a link/URL can be created if the form can use method="GET". If the form is method="POST" you can still give it a try. It might work anyway. Some software will accept form submissions with either method.

The link/URL would he the URL of the form action, followed by a question mark, followed by name=value sets delimited with ampersands. Example:

<form 
   method="GET" 
   action="http://example.com/script.cgi">
<input name="email">
<input name="code">
</form>

That URL would be

http://example.com/script.cgi?email=name@isp.com&code=MyCode

Put in the correct values for email and code and you're good to go — maybe.

If the URL contains illegal characters (like a space), those characters will need to be converted into a "%" character followed by the 2-digit hex value of the character. (%20 for a space character.)

Will Bontrager