## 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`.

# WebSockets

When defining WebSockets, you normally declare a parameter of type `WebSocket` and with it you can read data from the client and send data to it.

It is provided directly by Starlette, but you can import it from `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import WebSocket
```

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* `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.

	// 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.

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.

 * @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}

These proxies could handle HTTPS certificates and other things.

## Proxy Forwarded Headers { #proxy-forwarded-headers }

A **proxy** in front of your application would normally set some headers on the fly before sending the requests to your **server** to let the server know that the request was **forwarded** by the proxy, letting it know the original (public) URL, including the domain, that it is using HTTPS, etc.

## 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}