Does RESTFUL webservices support POST method
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Does RESTFUL webservices support POST method.
1. if yes, are there any limitation
2. if not, why?
Does RESTFUL webservices support POST method.
1. if yes, are there any limitation
2. if not, why?
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to get a resource , do can we use GET method. The reason is the data will very big, may be 21mb, 2mb...20mb. In any case it will be greater than 255 characters
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to get or SEND a resource/data , do can we use GET method. The reason is the data will very big, may be 21mb, 2mb...20mb. In any case it will be greater than 255 characters
You use GET to retrieve a resource. There's no size limit
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but as per my knowledge, in GET data is pasted in the url rite.
The limit for length of url is 255 characters.
More over if i have to retrieve more amount of data. How to get it from REST.
Basically simple question is how to retrieve data using HTTP post method using REST.
The limit for length of url is 255 characters.
More over if i have to retrieve more amount of data. How to get it from REST.
Basically simple question is how to retrieve data using HTTP post method using REST.
The length of the url is not related to the length of the data retrievable
>>Basically simple question is how to retrieve data using HTTP post method using REST.
And to be clear about the above: you don't retrieve using POST, as the link shows- you use GET
And to be clear about the above: you don't retrieve using POST, as the link shows- you use GET
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"HTTP GET is designed so that all information necessary for the interaction is part of the URI, thus promoting URI addressability..."
and another site explaining difference between GET and POST.
how a browser uri length is max 255 characters. so that means i cant use get lone data passing or recieving. rite?
and another site explaining difference between GET and POST.
how a browser uri length is max 255 characters. so that means i cant use get lone data passing or recieving. rite?
>>so that means i cant use get lone data passing or recieving. rite?
Sorry - i don't understand the question - please rephrase
Sorry - i don't understand the question - please rephrase
ASKER
What it meant as in GET method, data is transferred as a part of URI/URL and max length URI/URL is 255 characters as HTTP/browser standards. Hence I cannot pass large size data in GET, which also restricts in RESTFUL webservices as we are asked to GET method in it.
>>What it meant as in GET method, data is transferred as a part of URI/URL and max length URI/URL is 255 characters
Yes, but that's only in (arguably incorrectly implemented) normal HTTP. Data are not transferred *at all* using GET in REST. That's what POST is for
Yes, but that's only in (arguably incorrectly implemented) normal HTTP. Data are not transferred *at all* using GET in REST. That's what POST is for
ASKER
great. Ther, this is the confusion. Can you explain it bit more how data is transfered in POST, even if call Method is GET.
POST has a 'message body' in which the data are transferred *from client to server*. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POST_(HTTP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POST_(HTTP)
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hi that gives clear picture. but what i meant by long URI in GET operation means:
http://url....?var1=....(morethan 255 chars)&var2=...(more than 255 chars).........
http://url....?var1=....(morethan 255 chars)&var2=...(more than 255 chars).........
Then yes, I'd recommend sending those parameters as a POST request. You'll probably make any REST purist cry doing that, but it should work. ;)
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