Making POST Requests with the REST API

Unlike the GET method that sends the data in the URL, the POST method allows us to send data to the server in the body of the request.

For example, suppose we have a service to register a user to whom you must pass an ID and email. This information would be passed through the data attribute through a dictionary structure.The post method requires an extra field called "data," in which we send a dictionary with all the elements that we will send to the server through the corresponding method.

In this example, we are going to simulate the sending of an HTML form through a POST request, just like browsers do when we send a form to a website. Form data is always sent in a key-value dictionary format.

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