The Mechanics of CGI

<form action="mailto:pvk@vuylsteker.net" method="post" ENCTYPE="text/plain">

works well to send by mail. In that case, you need the enctype attribute to make sure that all the fields will be put into the same text, otherwise, only the first field appears in your mail.

<form action="http://pingu.anu.edu.au:8080/cgi-bin/form.pl" method="post">

is enough to send to any CGI script.

<form action="http://pingu.anu.edu.au:8080/cgi-bin/form.pl" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">

will work too, but there is no need to specify the enctype for a script type submission

 

For more on cgi script : http://cgi.resourceindex.com/