what is: form action="/"?

[Zhidian Du]

I am using java to write to url, http://fatigo.bioinfo.cnio.es/ , but
I found the form is :

<form method="post" action="/" enctype="multipart/form-data"
name="fatigo">
I have no idea why the action is not a URL, can you explain it why.

Thanks.

[Michael Wilcox]

Zhidian Du wrote:

<form method="post" action="/" enctype="multipart/form-data"
name="fatigo"> I have no idea why the action is not a URL, can you explain it why.

The slash in the action attribute means the form will send the data to
the root page, probably the home page.
--
Michael Wilcox, http://mikewilcox.t35.com/

[Brian]

Zhidian Du wrote:

I am using java to write to url, http://fatigo.bioinfo.cnio.es/ , but
I found the form is :

<form method="post" action="/" enctype="multipart/form-data"
name="fatigo">

I have no idea why the action is not a URL,

It is a url -- a relative url that points to the root of the server
where the form is access from. Is that where the form script is?

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Brian (remove ".invalid" to email me)
http://www.tsmchughs.com/

[Mark Tranchant]

Zhidian Du wrote:

I am using java to write to url, http://fatigo.bioinfo.cnio.es/ , but
I found the form is :

<form method="post" action="/" enctype="multipart/form-data"
name="fatigo">
I have no idea why the action is not a URL, can you explain it why.

The action is a URL: it is the URL whatever the server is configured to
serve at the root of the current webspace. It could be "index.php" for
example.

It's the same mechanism that allows you to type:

http://www.example.com/

instead of

http://www.example.com/index.php

--
Mark.