Day 2: HTTP request methods

The same URL, same data sent, but different content?

You can use different HTTP request methods to get different webpages from the same URL! You can either GET the webpage from the web-server or you can POST data to the web server and it will return you a webpage or just some other data. If the developer of the website was a bit too fancy, they might have also made up their own reuqest methods for their servers.

Theory

HTTP request methods

Objective: Understand how webpages are generated and given to users.

HTTP request methods Read here

sending data using GET request Read here

sending data using POST request Read here

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Practice

Hands-On Exercise

try to search something on google, without using the search bar, only use the place where you type the url.