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Background Information Analysis: According to RFC 2616, § 9.5, POST is used to create a resource: The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request ...

In an HTTP GET request, parameters are sent as a query string: http://example.com/page?parameter=value&also=another In an HTTP POST request, the parameters are not sent along with the URI. Where ...

Suppose the following route which accesses an xml file to replace the text of a specific tag with a given xpath (?key=): @app.route('/resource', methods = ['POST']) def update_text(): # CODE Then,...

Is there a well-supported, common behavior that I can expect if I do something like this in HTML: <form method="get" action="/somePage.html?param1=foo&param2=foo"> <input name="param2"&...

Is it a bad practice to mix GET and POST? (note this is in PHP) e.g. <form action="delete.php?l=en&r=homepage" method="post"> <!-- post fields here --> </form>

Applications send out emails to verify user accounts or reset a password. I believe the following is the way it should be and I am asking for references and implementations. If an application has to ...

I'm sending a POST request in a Rails functional test like this: post :create, collection: { name: 'New Collection' } collection gets sent as JSON-encoded form data, as expected. What I can't figure ...

When I do http POST request via Web form, Is there any difference(practically or theoretically) between parameters specified in the URL and parameters passed with form on the server side? Can I do ...

OK, I know already all the reasons on paper why I should not use a HTTP GET when making a RESTful call to update the state of something on the server. Thus returning possibly different data each time. ...

Is it allowable to pass parameters to a web page through the URL (after the question mark) when using the POST method? I know that it works (most of the time, anyways) because my company's webapp ...

I have been trying to find an answer if there is some sort of standard in regards to when/when not to use the above methods of passing information to a REST call. I have been looking everywhere but ...

There is a system that sends POST requests from frontend to backend. These POST requests do not use the body to pass the data to the server; instead, it uses query strings in the URL params. These ...

I'm not entirely sure how to do this but I have a endpoint URL which is a POST request for login authentication. When you add a request payload, you will get either a successful login credential or an ...

I need to create a POST request with http_build_query. Following are my codes: $uri_args = array ( 'name' => 'Jack', 'surname' => 'Jackson', 'username' => 'jackson12', ...

I need to redirect a user to http://www.someurl.com?id=2 using a POST method. Is it possible? If yes, then how? Right now I have following and it forwards the POST data properly, but it removes the ?...