what is the correct syntax of a post form in an http request

What is the format of a form sent in an http post request ? I am trying an http client program and want to send a form in an http post request. I tried :

< FORM METHOD=POST >
< INPUT name="name" value="chriss"&开发者_JS百科gt;
< /FORM >

is this correct ? on the server side, when I try to get the value of name ( i use : form.getFirstValue("name")) I get null. (I am using restlet as my API.) Can anyone help me please

The body of the POST request sent by an HTML form is usually using the "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" media type.

If your client is also a Restlet client, you should be able to use the Form class, set the required values for each name/value pairs, and get the representation to send using getWebRepresentation().

Essentially, the body will look like this:

name=chriss

If you had more parameters, they would be separated by &.

(If you were sending files, you'd use the multipart/form-data encoding instead.)

An HTML reference will be helpful. There are plenty of good HTML books and online references.

<form method="post" action="/url/to/submit/to">
    <input type="text" name="name" value="chriss">
</form>