Bookshelf v7.5: Using POST and GET

The HTTP protocol supports GET and POST methods. You might be familiar with these methods if you have ever built a Web-based CGI form.

The EAI HTTP Transport imposes certain restrictions on your use of transport features when using POST or GET method. Table 9 identifies restrictions on these HTTP methods.

Table 9. Restrictions on GET and POST Methods with EAI HTTP Transport
Method	Restriction
Get	The HTTP Body has no significance when using GET. During a GET process, only the universal resource locator (URL) is used for the request.
Post	The HTTP Body is relevant only when using POST. The HTTP Body is encoded with a default mechanism used to encode URLs.The HTTP Content-Type `application/xxx-form-urlencoded` is the default content type used for request bodies. The content is sent as it is without any special content encoding, such as Base64.