HTTP POST Method

An HTTP POST Method is a HTTP Request Method that can receive a data record.

• Context:
  • It can receive an HTTP POST Request Message.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • HTTP GET Method.
• See: Idempotence, WebDAV, Data Retrieval, W3C, Web Application, HTTP Response, Web Resource, Form (HTML), curl Utility.

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References

2013

• (Wikipedia, 2013) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Request_methods Retrieved:2013-12-19.
  • … POST : Requests that the server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the web resource identified by the URI. The data POSTed might be, as examples, an annotation for existing resources; a message for a bulletin board, newsgroup, mailing list, or comment thread; a block of data that is the result of submitting a web form to a data-handling process; or an item to add to a database.

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