HTML form that causes a GET request

Question

Basic question. If I have a form in my HTML (where in my case someone inputs a date), how can I have my users cause a GET request with the contents of that form instead of a POST.

e.g. form entry (e.g date)... so 20190312

what I am trying to achieve is such that AFTER the user submits the form.. the user is the lead to page that has

GET domain.tld/scriptname.php?variable=20190312

and then the system then processes the GET request accordingly.

thank you

A bit unclear what you are asking here. Do you want users to send the form data to your system first, and then have your system make a GET request to a different domain in the background? Or what exactly is the issue? — 04FS, Mar 12 '19 at 13:28
[Form method attribute](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Forms/Sending_and_retrieving_form_data#The_method_attribute) — Louys Patrice Bessette, Mar 12 '19 at 13:30
@LouysPatriceBessette — The method attribute is not needed. `GET` is the default for it. — Quentin, Mar 12 '19 at 13:39
You are right @Quentin... I only posted a link so OP could read a bit. ;) — Louys Patrice Bessette, Mar 12 '19 at 13:44
Possible duplicate of [What is the default form HTTP method?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2314401/what-is-the-default-form-http-method) — Louys Patrice Bessette, Mar 12 '19 at 13:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '19 at 13:33

Maybe i'm missunderstanding what you are asking.
This can easly be achived using builtin GET method in FORM tag

<body>
    <form id="form" method="GET" action="scriptname.php">
        <input id="date-txt" type="text" name="date">
        <input id="search-btn" type="submit" value="Submit">
    </form>
</body>

While filling up above field ad clicking "Submit" form will be submitted and you can see in your url path/or/page/scriptname.php?date=INPUT_FIELD_VAL
for every input in #form with a name, if GET method is used, you'll see a ?name=value in the url

nailed it.. i had just assumed that all of the forms were handled via POST... learn something every day.. thank you for taking the time to answer a basic question appreciated.. — Matt, Mar 12 '19 at 14:36

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '19 at 13:38

What you describe is the default behaviour of a form. If you don't want a POST request, then don't use a method attribute to set the request type to POST.

<form action="//domain.tld/scriptname.php">
    <input name="variable" value="20190312">
    <button>Submit</button>
</form>

HTML form that causes a GET request

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