Perfect. Thanks. This is what I wanted. I just replaced id with name and it
started working.
2018-02-20 21:59 GMT+05:30 <matthewju...@gmail.com>:
> This worked for me in a project. My form is <form action=“” method=“post”>
> and the input is <input type=“password” name=“password”/>. On the server I
> use r.ParseForm then r.FormValue("password").
>
> Matt
>
> On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 10:16:57 AM UTC-6, Sankar wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a Golang HTTP server which is consumed by mobile Apps via HTTP.
>>
>> For one workflow (reset-password) alone, I needed a web interface. So
>> instead of creating a new different webapp, I decided to make an endpoint
>> emit text/html instead of JSON and then serve a static HTML page, which
>> will then do a POST request.
>>
>> The same endpoint will serve HTML on HTTP GET and will process the values
>> in HTTP POST.
>>
>> However, I am not able to get the POST parameters in my HTTP request.
>> Even after a succesful req.ParseForm, my req.Form returns nil.
>>
>> I have attached the complete example.go file in the file, which you can
>> run offline. The relevant code section is:
>>
>> func alterPasswordHandler(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
>> if req.Method == http.MethodGet {
>> body := `
>> <html>
>> <body>
>> <form method="post">
>> <label for="password">Password</label>
>> <input id="password" type="password" placeholder="Password" required>
>> <label for="repeatPassword">Repeat Password</label>
>> <input id="repeatPassword" type="password" placeholder="Repeat Password"
>> required>
>> <button type="submit">Change Password</button>
>> </form>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>> `
>> res.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
>> res.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html")
>> res.Write([]byte(body))
>> } else if req.Method == http.MethodPost {
>> err := req.ParseForm()
>> log.Println(err, req.Form) // <<<<<<<<<<< req.Form is nil
>> }
>> }
>>
>> What am I doing wrong ? I do get the POST request but without the
>> password fields as part of the POST body. Any help ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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