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PostBin. Handy debugging tool for webhooks—create a TinyURL-style URL, then see a log of any POST requests made to that address.

# 21st September 2009, 11:03 pm / http, post, postbin, webhooks

rather baffling finding: POST requests, made via the XMLHTTP object, send header and body data in separate tcp/ip packets [and therefore,] xmlhttp GET performs better when sending small amounts of data than an xmlhttp POST

Iain Lamb

# 18th August 2009, 12:27 pm / ajax, get, http, iainlamb, performance, post, xmlhttprequest

Styling buttons to look like links. Nat has a neat trick for styling submit buttons to look like regular links—so there’s absolutely no excuse for using a “delete” link when you should be using a POST request.

# 10th June 2009, 2:11 am / buttons, css, forms, getpost, http, links, natalie-downe, post

If it's easy to make all your calls conform to the RESTful verb architecture, then that's good, I guess. But if not, then just use a POST as an RPC call, keep it as simple as possible and be done with it. And don't spend another minute worrying about being RESTful or not.

Damien Katz

# 15th August 2008, 8:07 am / damien-katz, http, post, rest, restful, rpc, web-services