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What’s the difference between “Request Payload” vs “Form Data” as seen in Chrome dev tools Network tab

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I have an old web application I have to support (which I did not write). When I fill out a form and submit then check the “Network” tab in Chrome I see “Request Payload” where I would normally see “Form Data”. What is the difference between the two and when would one be sent instead … Read more

How to post JSON to a server using C#?

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Here’s the code I’m using: // create a request HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(url); request.KeepAlive = false; request.ProtocolVersion = HttpVersion.Version10; request.Method = “POST”; // turn our request string into a byte stream byte[] postBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(json); // this is important – make sure you specify type this way request.ContentType = “application/json; charset=UTF-8”; request.Accept = “application/json”; … Read more

Sending HTTP POST Request In Java

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lets assume this URL… http://www.example.com/page.php?id=10 (Here id needs to be sent in a POST request) I want to send the id = 10 to the server’s page.php, which accepts it in a POST method. How can i do this from within Java? I tried this : URL aaa = new URL(“http://www.example.com/page.php”); URLConnection ccc = aaa.openConnection(); … Read more

Java – sending HTTP parameters via POST method easily

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I am successfully using this code to send HTTP requests with some parameters via GET method void sendRequest(String request) { // i.e.: request = “http://example.com/index.php?param1=a&param2=b&param3=c”; URL url = new URL(request); HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); connection.setDoOutput(true); connection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(false); connection.setRequestMethod(“GET”); connection.setRequestProperty(“Content-Type”, “text/plain”); connection.setRequestProperty(“charset”, “utf-8”); connection.connect(); } Now I may need to send the parameters (i.e. param1, param2, … Read more