{"id":284,"date":"2014-02-27T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:19:30","slug":"what-is-http-post-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/what-is-http-post-request","title":{"rendered":"What is HTTP POST Request?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute read<\/span><\/span><p class=\"lead\"><strong>HTTP POST<\/strong> request is used for sending data to a server. You can use POST requests for upload a file or submitting a web form, make sure that the receiving application agrees on the format.<br \/>\nAdditional headers are sent with the POST request: <strong>Content-Type<\/strong>: header which is usually <strong>application\/x-www-form-urlencoded<\/strong> and the <strong>Content-Length<\/strong>: header gives the length of the URL-encoded form data. These additional headers are used to describe the message body.<\/p>\n<p>The POST body is the block of data sent with the request and the request URI is not a resource to retrieve; it&#8217;s usually an application to handle the data you&#8217;re sending.<br \/>\nThe HTTP response is normally application response to your file upload request or form submission, not a static file.<\/p>\n<p>You can check related posts, what is <a title=\"What is HTTP\" href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/what-is-http\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HTTP<\/a>, and what is <a title=\"GET request\" href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/what-is-a-http-get-request\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HTTP GET request<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Use <strong><a title=\"load testing in the cloud\" href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\">LoadFocus<\/a><\/strong> for load testing your application with thousands of concurrent connections. You can create GET, POST, PUT and DELETE requests to you website. API endpoints or web application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute read<\/span><\/span>HTTP POST request is used for sending data to a server. You can use POST requests for upload a file or submitting a web form, make sure that the receiving application agrees on the format. Additional headers are sent with the POST request: Content-Type: header which is usually application\/x-www-form-urlencoded and the Content-Length: header gives the&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/what-is-http-post-request\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read What is HTTP POST Request?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,48,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apache-jmeter","category-load-testing","category-test-automation","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}