The action Attribute
The action attribute in the form element provides the URL of the program to be used for processing the form. In the example in Figure 15-1, the form information is going to a Perl script called guestbook.pl, which resides in the cgi-bin directory of the current server (by convention, CGI programs are usually kept in a directory called cgi-bin).
Figure 15-1. A simple form
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