I was reading up on how to create a telegram bot and I see that to set a web hook you use the GET http method. I assume that your link will be stored somewhere on telegram servers.
So now my question is:
Why not use the POST http method? What is the advantage of this design of using GET http method in this case rather than POST http method for something that pushes data?
Bot API supports GET and POST HTTP methods both. It's up to you what to use. (See this or this). I think it makes the API easy and fast to get started with.
For the sake of simplicity one might choose a simple GET request to set a webhook - Put together a Url with some parameters and call it in a web browser, done! Webhook is now set.
Still it is possible to do the same with a POST request (and you can argue it is the preferred way to do so). But it would need tools like Postman, CURL or some browser extensions.
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I've been told to use POST method to read data instead of the GET method. The tool I'm using is Postman. How can I use POST to fetch data/resources from the server?? I'm testing using any of the testing websites like reqres, gorest, etc.
Tried nothing as of now
Your question isn't really clear but if this api you use exposes a POST method to read data, that means that simply instead of sending a GET request to said URL, you should send a POST http request and the response will be the data you fetched.
On the contrary, if you are composing this api yourself and asking here how to do it, you could simply create a meathod for fetching data and expose this method to a POST request.
I am new to ASP.NET MVC. I am using http POST for custom validation. Recently I learned that both http POST and http GET are used to send data to the server. HTTP POST is more secure while http GET is less secure as it sends the data in the query string.
I want to know then, is it possible to get completely rid of HTTP GET in my project as its function is similar to http POST? I tried that but it immediately gave error as soon as I started debugging the project. It said "The resource cannot be found.". I am confused. Please help.
I would recommend to review Http Methods - MDN
Since you just started the right course of action would be to use GET to obtain the data (e.g. load the form) and POST to update the data (submit the form to the server).
If the application you are working on is written in plain ASP.NET MVC it will be impossible to completely avoid GET (as it is used by the browser to load application pages/views).
Once you are ready to move to REST APIs you might want to deeper explore PUT, DELETE and other methods
We have existed API like
/api/activiation_code
each time, the activiation_code will be different, then server will create a token for this call and return it, usually each call will have different activiation_code which return different token.
Since this API need server to create something so it is designed as POST.
Can we design this API as HTTP GET ?
What is the pro and cons ?
You could design the API to support GET requests, but I would not recommend this. If your API is accessible via a website, a user could accidentally activate an account multiple times since the URL will be stored in the browser's history. Additionally, web crawlers could potentially supply values to your API through the URL if you support GET requests.
POST requests are much better because the information is included in the body of the request, not the URL. Thus, it is much less likely that something will go wrong accidentally.
Is it possible to send content body with get request in c# using HTTP 1.1(RFC 2616). I also Need How to implement this in c#. I am getting protocol violation exception:can't send content body with this verb type.
Not really, and it has nothing to do with C# or ASP.NET specifically.
Technically you may be able to include a request body in a GET request. If certain objects in .NET don't allow you, you can always craft such a request manually and work around those objects. However, that effort isn't going to get you very far, because GET requests aren't supposed to have request body content. So the server is most likely going to ignore it anyway, if it's not dropped by something in between.
The bottom line is, GET requests don't have a request body. Whatever you're trying to accomplish should be accomplished by some other means.
how can i construct a artificial request to login to twitter or any site for that matter that accpets post forms.
what i've been trying is to extract the headers and post request parameters from the origional request(directed at the action atribute of the form) and copy it to the outgoing url object that i am making.but it just won't work.
And i am aware of the apis and i don't wanna use them i am trying this to write a web proxy site.
I don't fully understand your question (e.g. "aware of the APIs and I don't want to use them") but urlib may be useful, particularly urllib.FancyURLopener(...).
Are you looking for libcurl ?
It's a library that allows you to interact with servers using a bunch of different protocoles, including HTTP. So, for instance, you can simulate POST or GET request.
You can use it as a command line tool or as a library from many languages (PHP, C, etc ...)