Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

Sending a POST request

A POST request allows us to send data over to the server which it can then process as it needs to. It is a common method for saving or updating data that is stored in a database on the server machine.

Let's try this out now; open up your server and add a new endpoint as follows:

from flask import Flask, jsonify, [e-mail]("/send_me_data", methods=["POST"])def send_me_data():    data = request.form    for key, value in data.items():        print("received", key, "with value", value)    return "Thanks"...

This function includes a second argument in the route decorator called methods.  This argument specifies the HTTP methods, which are allowed to be sent to this endpoint. Since we want to send data using a POST request, we ...