HTTP POST enquiry

[Yeo Khian Wei]

Hi
My network administrator is in the midst of an SMS gateway implementation and wants to know whether does UNIX supports HTTP POST.
Qn1) What exactly is HTTP POST?
Qn2) What role does it perform?
Qn3) How do I know whether my box has this service?

Sorry if there are so many questions but I can't seem to find the answer in Google search. Thanks for clarifying my queries.

Cheers!

[Nicolas Dumeige]

Hello,

If your talking about dealing with POST or GET methods, it depends on the web server not the OS.

All major web server implement this RFC, I wouldn't worry about this. Just insure that the web server is started and accept request.


Regards

Nicolas

[V.Tamilvanan · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1.HTTP POST is one of the form processing method used in HTML Language. There is other method called GET.
2.It sends the data from the browser to the Web Server CGI Program as a Standard Input.
3.It is the method web browser which supports. Now a days defaultly all browsers support both POST and GET Method.

For more details:-
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/methods.html

[Yeo Khian Wei]

Hi
Think the answers provided have answered my questions. Thanks for the help!

Regards
Khian Wei