name : mary jones
email : mjones@jones.com
If the request method is "get" then it wd be formatted as GET /cgi/register.cgi?name=mary+jones&email=mjones%40jones.com HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost

If the request method is POST, the request message wd look like

POST /cgi/register.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-length: 67
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

name=mary+jones&email=mjones%40jones.com #this is content body

In case of GET, the string attached to request is received by QUERY_STRING, how is that received in case of POST ?
Content-Length is received by CONTENT_LENGTH parameter on the server. Where does the content body go ? does it move to the server with the request ? Does it get stored in stdin on the server and from there it is read in a scalar variable ?

I am kind of confused with this. I did some reading, but still confused. Pls explain this.

In reply to get and post request methods by manish.rathi

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