HTTP GET with request body

Roy Fielding’s comment about including a body with a GET request. Yes. In other words, any HTTP request message is allowed to contain a message body, and thus must parse messages with that in mind. Server semantics for GET, however, are restricted such that a body, if any, has no semantic meaning to the request. … Read more

HTTP GET request in JavaScript?

Browsers (and Dashcode) provide an XMLHttpRequest object which can be used to make HTTP requests from JavaScript: However, synchronous requests are discouraged and will generate a warning along the lines of: Note: Starting with Gecko 30.0 (Firefox 30.0 / Thunderbird 30.0 / SeaMonkey 2.27), synchronous requests on the main thread have been deprecated due to the negative … Read more