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Seppe vanden Broucke and Bart BaesensPractical Web Scraping for Data Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3582-9_4

4. Delving Deeper in HTTP

Seppe vanden Broucke1  and Bart Baesens2
(1)
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
(2)
Dept of Decision Sci & Info Managem, KU Leuven Dept of Decision Sci & Info Managem, Leuven, Belgium
 

We’ve already seen most of the core building blocks that make up the modern web: HTTP, HTML, and CSS. However, we’re not completely finished with HTTP yet. So far, we’ve only been using one of HTTP’s request “verbs” or “methods”: “GET”. This chapter will introduce you to the other methods HTTP provides, starting with the “POST” method that is commonly used to submit web forms. Next, this chapter ...

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