What is POST

Robert · #1 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006

I want to have a brief knowledge about POST. Can someone share your thoughts on this in this discussion?

joel · #2 (**permalink**) 11-12-2006

Hope that you want to know about POst Office Protocol.A POst Office Protocol is a protocol designed to allow single user computers to retrieve electronic mail from a POP server. The POP server might be a computer with a permanent Internet connection whereas its clients might only connect to it occasionally.

Thirumurugan321 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-03-2007

"POST" is one method to submitting form data to serverside program. A bulk amount of data we can post to the server by this method.
Example:
<html>
<form action="url" method=POST>
Enter the Name:
<input type="text" name="text1" size="10">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</html>

In the above program, "url" may be a servlet or jsp program, which is going to collect and process the data from the form. Using POST method a bulk amount of data we can post to the server.

And one more method is there instead of POST is called "GET". This method post the data to server in the form of query string. i.e We can see the see the data on the address bar. By this method we can send only a limited amount of data to server. 256 bytes only.

nikhilgarg · #4 (**permalink**) 02-07-2007

If i am understanding right POST stands from "Power on Self Test" . This is the process which taken place, when a computer boots up. This is the process to check all hardware and software availability

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