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Asked: 2026-06-17T11:02:22+00:00

First Quesiton: This form submits to demo_form?name=ABC <form action=demo_form method=get> name: <input type=text name=name><br>

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First Quesiton:

This form submits to demo_form?name=ABC

<form action="demo_form" method="get">
  name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
  <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Is there a way to make it submit to demo_form/ABC/?

Second Question:

Even if users don’t use my form, if they use a web crawler to simply visit demo_form?name=ABC or demo_form/ABC/, it would yield the same result. I want to prevent that. What’s the best way of making those two URLs only valid if the user submit the name via my form? I am learning django so hopefully the solution would work with django framework.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is there a way to make it submit to demo_form/ABC/?

    You could intercept the submission in JavaScript, construct the URL manually, then set location. That would break if JS wasn’t available.

    More sanely, you could send an HTTP 301 redirect response when you get the request for demo_form?name=ABC

    What’s the best way of making those two URLs only valid if the user submit the name via my form?

    Generally speaking, visiting a form should not be a pre-requisite for anything involving a GET request. A large portion of the point of GET is that the results are bookmarkable, linkable, etc.

    It would be more understandable if it was a POST request, as those are intended to change data on the server and you will want to protect against CSFR. The standard protection against CSRF is a token stored in the form and in a cookie

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