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Posted by Justin Cantley
Justin Cantley
18,068 Points

Why does get work but not post?

When I assign get to the method attribute of my form the data is submitted successfully, but if I try to assign post to the method attribute I receive a message that tells me 'cannot POST'. Why is this?

Here is the link to my project: https://github.com/JustCant/FormProject

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,228 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,228 Points

What are you submitting it to (what kind of server)? And are you actually connected to a server with a browser, or are you running on some kind of editor/simulator?

Justin Cantley
Justin Cantley
18,068 Points

The form submits data to another page that is part of the project called success.html. To be honest I don't have a full understanding of post and get so I'm not sure if what I'm trying to do makes sense or not.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,228 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,228 Points

When you work with the form, what is it you are running? Is it a browser?

Justin Cantley
Justin Cantley
18,068 Points

Yes. I'm using brackets text editor and running the page on chrome.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,228 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,228 Points

So "brackets" is acting as the server then. I'm not familiar with it myself, but since "post" requires handling by the server, it's possible that it doesn't support that function, or needs some special configuration before it will.

Justin Cantley
Justin Cantley
18,068 Points

Ok I see. I'll look more into that. Thank's for the input!