A report on POST (HTTP)

Request method supported by HTTP used by the World Wide Web.

- POST (HTTP)

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Sample form. The form is enclosed in an HTML table for visual layout.

Form (HTML)

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Sent to a server for processing.

Sent to a server for processing.

Sample form. The form is enclosed in an HTML table for visual layout.
Registration form of PHP-based e-commerce web-shop software ZenCart

When data that has been entered into HTML forms is submitted, the names and values in the form elements are encoded and sent to the server in an HTTP request message using GET or POST.

Percent-encoding

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Method to encode arbitrary data in a Uniform Resource Identifier using only the limited US-ASCII characters legal within a URI.

Method to encode arbitrary data in a Uniform Resource Identifier using only the limited US-ASCII characters legal within a URI.

When data that has been entered into HTML forms is submitted, the form field names and values are encoded and sent to the server in an HTTP request message using method GET or POST, or, historically, via email.

An address bar on Google Chrome showing a URL with the query string.

Query string

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Part of a uniform resource locator that assigns values to specified parameters.

Part of a uniform resource locator that assigns values to specified parameters.

An address bar on Google Chrome showing a URL with the query string.

The same encoding is used by default when the submission method is POST, but the result is submitted as the HTTP request body rather than being included in a modified URL.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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Application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

Application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

URL beginning with the HTTP scheme and the WWW domain name label
Tim Berners-Lee
An HTTP/1.1 request made using telnet. The request message, response header section, and response body are highlighted.

POST: The POST method requests that the target resource process the representation enclosed in the request according to the semantics of the target resource. For example, it is used for posting a message to an Internet forum, subscribing to a mailing list, or completing an online shopping transaction.

Postback

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In web development, a postback is an HTTP POST to the same page that the form is on.