what is http post?
For the web, the http post is the the most commonly used method for submitting data to a web server. For example when you log into your webmail account, your login & password usually are sent to the server with http post request. The difference between get and http post methods is mainly defined by the terms of data encoding. The get has problems related to handling lengthy URLs while with http post you can send as long URLs as needed. Also the http post can be used with non-ASCII characters. The http post is used if the service is associated with the form processing with side effects. It is recommended to use http post if there is a database modification. The http post allows posting messages to a bulletin boards, mailing lists and newsgroups. The http post is used for providing data blocks to the server. For example, the http post can be used for submitting completed form details. The http post is also used for data-handling; appending new entities to a database is usually done with
