Web Programming Pre - Fill A Form

Question

I am very new to using both a server - side and client - side at the same time with web programming. I have a simple page with two text fields, one is called topTextField, the other bottomTextFeild, and a submit button called content. When I press 'Submit' the data goes over to my Mongoose server instance, it gets processed by a simple Lua script, and a link appears for the client with the auto - fill form data e.g localhost:8080?topText=blah&bottomText=moreblah&content=Submit, or one of the few variants I have tried, weather I manually enter this url, or put it in a <a href..., it does not seem to pre - fill the form data, even if I clear my cache. I know this seems like a simple task, but I am quite lost. How do I get the form data to pre - fill in this case?

Answer 1

Use method=pst in form attribue like following

<form name="input" action="html_form_action.asp" method="post">
.......
</form>

I guess the server needs post request to accept the data.