TL;DR Summary; if you have binary (non-alphanumeric) data (or a significantly sized payload) to transmit, use multipart/form-data. Otherwise, use application/x-www-form-urlencoded. The MIME types you mention are the two Content-Type headers for HTTP POST requests that user-agents (browsers) must support. The purpose of both of those types of requests is to send a list of name/value … Read more
GET and POST are two different types of HTTP requests. According to Wikipedia: GET requests a representation of the specified resource. Note that GET should not be used for operations that cause side-effects, such as using it for taking actions in web applications. One reason for this is that GET may be used arbitrarily by robots or crawlers, which should … Read more
Overall: Both PUT and POST can be used for creating. You have to ask, “what are you performing the action upon?”, to distinguish what you should be using. Let’s assume you’re designing an API for asking questions. If you want to use POST, then you would do that to a list of questions. If you … Read more
Overall: Both PUT and POST can be used for creating. You have to ask, “what are you performing the action upon?”, to distinguish what you should be using. Let’s assume you’re designing an API for asking questions. If you want to use POST, then you would do that to a list of questions. If you … Read more