WEB 1.1 - Module 1: Lesson 4

Learning Outcomes 💫

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to...

Explain the differences between GET and POST requests.
For a given example of a request, identify whether it should be a GET or POST request.

Videos 🎥

Vid 1 - Exploring applications and differences between the HTTP GET and POST and methods via Grumble.io

Exercises 💪

Answer the questions in the README file in this repl.it and submit your work.

Written Companion 🗒

<aside> 🤔 Sometimes we want to receive data, while other times we want to send data. How do we differentiate between these two different types of requests?

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Clients can create many types of requests.

Try to imagine some of the user situations in which different requests might get made. For example, perhaps the user wants to get a list of shopping items from a website—while other times the user wants to upload their item for sale.

In this article, we will be exploring the two most common request methods— GET and POST.