Sending a POST HTTP request encoding parameters
The HTTP protocol supports some types of verbs. A verb is a way to ask something to a remote server. Some of these verbs are GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, PATCH, TRACE, and OPTIONS. For a detailed description of the HTTP protocol, you can read the related RFCs at the following URLs:
- http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html: RFC2616 about HTTP/1.1 protocol
- http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html: RFC2616-specific section about the available verbs in HTTP/1.1 protocol
When you write a URI in the browser address bar and hit return, you are issuing a GET request to the remote HTTP server. However, when you have to send form data to the server, usually the HTML form uses the POST method. ...
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