Can anyone explain how an http protocol is made?

[rbayer]

It should be the same syntax as the example you gave that works. As far as I know, you can just write

<FORM ACTION = "http://www.your-url.com/path-to-script/script.pl" METHOD="POST">

html/xhtml just resolves the "/cgi-bin/formmail.pl" to the full address based on the path of the current page--it's just shorthand that makes maintainance a little easier.

If this isn't what you're looking for, or if it doesn't work, could you explain what exactly you are trying to do? Are you trying to send data to another webserver from your site?