Decoding: Processing Request Values
Sequence of events in a web application:
- Browser calls for a server URL.
- Server encodes the requested page as an HTML form and sends it to the
browser.
- User fills in a form.
- Browser sends back an HTML POST request consisting of name/value pairs
(also called request parameters).
- These name/value pairs are all the server has to interpret user action
in the browser.
- Interpreting the parameter values is called decoding.