Extremely Dumb Question Get/Post HTML

OK,
I know I can use the html form and use the post or get methods to send data to a particular url, however what I want to do is to retrieve it and display it using only html. I am sure this is easy but I can not find any simple samples of this. I want to have an html page onload go to my server and retrieve data and display it accordingly. Sounds simple. I know I can use .net yet I just want to use html. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

In order for your page to request data from the web server, you need a server-side language. HTML is just the mark-up language to display (render) a web page. You can use any of the numerous server-side technologies to do this. ASP.NET, Classic ASP, PHP, etc. You can also use JavaScript to call web serves (still a server-side language) with a SOAP client (google for lots of examples).