A report on Form (HTML), Percent-encoding and Common Gateway Interface

As such, it is also used in the preparation of data of the media type, as is often used in the submission of HTML form data in HTTP requests.

A typical use case occurs when a web user submits a web form on a web page that uses CGI.

The default MIME type (internet media type), application/x-www-form-urlencoded, is based on a very early version of the general URI percent-encoding rules, with a number of modifications such as newline normalization and replacing spaces with " " instead of " ".

In addition, the CGI specification contains rules for how web servers decode data of this type and make it available to applications.

Perl scripts are traditionally used as Common Gateway Interface applications (CGIs).

: the part of URL after ? character. The query string may be composed of * name = value pairs separated with ampersands (such as var1 = val1 & var2 = val2 ...) when used to submit form data transferred via GET method as defined by HTML application/x-www-form-urlencoded.