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does post require a form or curl to be post

<form action="targeturl.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="postvar1" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="postvar2" value="cat" />
<input type="hidden" name="postvar3" value="2017-01-01" />
<input type="hidden" name="postvar4" value="jack@frost.com" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>

does simplest example of a post need to be a webform.

is a form required to make sending data to url or api in post format

or curl (not pictured)

what makes
a post
a post

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Ray Paseur

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Ray Paseur

@Dave: You can also use fsockopen(), but the point remains the same.

This comment, while very old, is still useful because it clearly shows the use of fputs() to write the client request and fgets() to read the server response.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php#34887

This comment seems to illustrate the use of "verbs" and the rest of the request data fairly well. It might require testing / refactoring for 21st century standards.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php#101872

This is also worth understanding.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php