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=== Indexed search ===
Before [[form (HTML)|forms]] were added to HTML, browsers rendered the –{{tag|isindex|open}} element as a single-line text-input control. The text entered into this control was sent to the server as a query string addition to a [[GET (HTTP)|GET]] request for the base URL or another URL specified by the {{code|action}} attribute.<ref>{{cite web |title=<isindex> |url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/isindex |website=HTML (HyperText Markup Language) |access-date=2015-11-21 |archive-date=2017-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019030835/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/isindex |url-status=dead }}</ref> This was intended to allow web servers to use the provided text as query criteria so they could return a list of matching pages.<ref>{{cite web |title=HTML/Elements/isindex |url=https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/isindex |website=W3C Wiki |access-date=2020-03-20 |archive-date=2021-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622024419/https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/isindex |url-status=dead }}</ref>
When the text input into the indexed search control is submitted, it is encoded as a query string as follows:
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