THE STRUCTURE OF HTTP REQUESTS - HTTP Programming Recipes for Java Bots - page 12

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As can be seen from the above form, there are two <input> tags that both accept text
from the user. These will be picked up as posted variables when the POST request is sent to
the web server. The result of the POST request is shown in Figure 1.6.