372 questions
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Why is my patch request being blocked despite PATCH being allowed by the server's CORS policy?
The Gist API explicitly allows any * host and the PATCH method: access-control-allow-origin: * access-control-allow-methods: GET,PUT,PATCH,OPTIONS,POST However, when a PATCH request is issued from a ...
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.NET Core 8 site on IIS 10 rejecting PATCH, PUT, DELETE requests
I've been adding an API to a .NET Core 8 website. When I run it locally in IIS Express out of Visual Studio, all the PATCH, PUT, and DELETE requests work. When I deploy to IIS 10 on a server, they're ...
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Safe (HTTP Methods): POST with certain MIME types?
From MDN (Archive): for HTTP request methods that can cause side-effects on server data (in particular, HTTP methods other than GET, or POST with certain MIME types), the specification mandates that ...
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Send IformData as a field within Postman
This is my postman setup; for the request object; public class UploadRequest { public List<IFormFile> File { get; set; } public int EntityType { get; set; } public ...
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In Flask, my custom endpoint returns 404 in HTML despite having a JSON response
When trying to curl this endpoint with curl -X GET -i localhost:5000/person/66c09925-589a-43b6-9a5d-d1601cf53287 the implementation works fine: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Werkzeug/3.0.3 Python/3.12.3 ...
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Why can I test the delete method perfectly in Postman but not in the browser? [closed]
I found that my HTTP delete request runs perfectly when I test it in Postman. However, when I try to test it in the browser, I receive a 'Cannot GET /account/delete/Julieth' error. I managed to ...
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Should i use GET or POST for request with body in DRF?
I am relatively new to the web development and I am writing backend for webapp for practicing chemical elements and compounds and their formulas in our school. I am using Django and Django Rest ...
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Which HTTP method is correct for RPC over HTTP triggering asynchronous action eventually changing server status? [closed]
We are using HTTP protocol to trigger an asynchronous action on the web server, which later in the background loads data from another server and writes them into our server's database. ┌──────┐ ...
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What HTTP method should a route have if it's for create_or_delete
Yea I know it's such a strange purpose create_or_delete. But I have an attendances table for users, and in the frontend there's a checkbox, when it's checked -> create an attendance record when ...
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Which url name should be used for api performing the membership withdrawal function
Q1. Is it okay to use the word "deregistration" in the API specification, or should I use "signout"? Which one is better? Q2. And I wonder if the actual logic of membership ...
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Why does it return status code 405 instead of 401 unauthorized? [duplicate]
Here in my ASP.NET Core 6 Web API project, when I try to make a request to an authorized endpoint and I'm not authenticated, the API returns a status code of 405, but isn't it supposed to return 401 ? ...
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how to remove "Request method 'GET' not supported' error from the screen in java
When i access the URL api in the browser, i get this error in the screen: Request method 'GET' not supported What i want is to completely remove this error when i access the url directly in the ...
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How do I properly pass an group ID parameter into the GroupMe API
I am trying to return a specific group by ID in GroupMe using Python. The official documentation states that, to get a specific group, you append the base URL with /groups/:id and add the group ID ...
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Handle HEAD request with CefSharp
I am evaluating CefSharp to build a desktop application which basically only wraps a web application. To access files from the file system I want to intercept http requests of the web app. I adapted ...
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Best Practices for retrieving data in MVC: Concerns about Using POST for Retrieval and Token Handling [closed]
I'm currently working on a MVC app. I've implemented a route using a POST method to retrieve information and navigate to the corresponding page, and I have some concerns about the design practices I'm ...