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onychomys on Sept 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deploy a website on imgur.com

How can you send information to your backend server without JS?

jansommer on Sept 8, 2021 | [–]

Back in the days (I'm 33 and thus quite old in web years) we would use forms

stevage on Sept 8, 2021 | | [–]

Submit buttons or links. Then the whole page reloads.

There might be tricks using CSS and images too.

jzebedee on Sept 8, 2021 | [–]

This is like a technical invocation of Poe's law.

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