## Security - HTTPS { #security-https }

In the [previous chapter about HTTPS](https.md){.internal-link target=_blank} we learned about how HTTPS provides encryption for your API.

We also saw that HTTPS is normally provided by a component **external** to your application server, a **TLS Termination Proxy**.

## About "Form Fields" { #about-form-fields }

The way HTML forms (`<form></form>`) sends the data to the server normally uses a "special" encoding for that data, it's different from JSON.

**FastAPI** will make sure to read that data from the right place instead of JSON.

/// note | Technical Details

Data from forms is normally encoded using the "media type" `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`.

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And then you can set the `status_code` in that *temporal* response object.

{* ../../docs_src/response_change_status_code/tutorial001_py39.py hl[1,9,12] *}

And then you can return any object you need, as you normally would (a `dict`, a database model, etc).

And if you declared a `response_model`, it will still be used to filter and convert the object you returned.

## What is "Form Data" { #what-is-form-data }

The way HTML forms (`<form></form>`) sends the data to the server normally uses a "special" encoding for that data, it's different from JSON.

**FastAPI** will make sure to read that data from the right place instead of JSON.

/// note | Technical Details

Data from forms is normally encoded using the "media type" `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` when it doesn't include files.

 * @param <N> The most general node type this builder will support. This is normally {@code Object}
 *     unless it is constrained by using a method like {@link #nodeOrder}, or the builder is
 *     constructed based on an existing {@code ValueGraph} using {@link #from(ValueGraph)}.
 * @param <V> The most general value type this builder will support. This is normally {@code Object}

* `HEAD`
* `PATCH`
* `TRACE`

In the HTTP protocol, you can communicate to each path using one (or more) of these "methods".

---

When building APIs, you normally use these specific HTTP methods to perform a specific action.

Normally you use:

* `POST`: to create data.
* `GET`: to read data.
* `PUT`: to update data.
* `DELETE`: to delete data.

 * @param <N> The most general node type this builder will support. This is normally {@code Object}
 *     unless it is constrained by using a method like {@link #nodeOrder}, or the builder is
 *     constructed based on an existing {@code Network} using {@link #from(Network)}.
 * @param <E> The most general edge type this builder will support. This is normally {@code Object}

and can be asserted as desired.

You can change/extend these stubs, and tests should not be breaking too much, since most tests
assert using expected values from the stubs. Normally, when you try to use data from the stubs that
have not been properly populated, you'll get a nullpointer in your test and you then have to
identify which stub creates that specific piece of data.

The most important stubs are:

	// Holds info about when the entry was created first.
	CreationDate time.Time `json:"creationDate"`

	// When a SRV record with a "Host: IP-address" is added, we synthesize
	// a srv.Target domain name.  Normally we convert the full Key where
	// the record lives to a DNS name and use this as the srv.Target. When
	// TargetStrip > 0 we strip the left most TargetStrip labels from the
	// DNS name.