Accepting Data: Handling Form Data

Learn how to make your custom web server accept data from a form.

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So far, your web server offers a read-only service: it publishes some data but doesn’t accept any… Until now!

Information submitted to a web server can be either form data or JSON data.

Handling form data

Form data comes encapsulated into the HTTP POST request sent by the client to the server. The first server task is to extract this information ...