hugo-mx-gateway provides a RESTful POST endpoint for static
contact/demo request pages. It's a simple, yet a powerful tool built for
this only-designated purpose, e.g. for use with static sites built
using Hugo.
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hugo-mx-gateway is built upon a simple request handling workflow:
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* Create an HTML form with a POST action pointing towards the hugo-mx-
gateway service.
* For each user request, hugo-mx-gateway automatically retrieves
information submitted by the user (email, subject, message details...),
then generates and sends a templated email (based on Go Template to the
user-provided email address, while bcc'ing a copy of that email to an
address that you can define for internal tracking and follow up.
* Once a request is processed (upon success or failure), hugo-mx-gateway
handles the reply back towards the calling static page by redirecting
the browser to the origin page with additional URL parameters
describing the completion status of the processing (e.g.
/contact.html?status=success&message=request%20submitted). The
parameters can then be easily retrieved and shown to the user, e.g.
with a few lines of Javascript within the static page.
