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How are POST and GET variables handled in Python?

In PHP you can just use $_POST for POST and $_GET for GET (Query string) variables. What's the equivalent in Python?

How make a HTTP GET request using Ruby on Rails?

I would like to take information from another website. Therefore (maybe) I should make a request to that website (in my case a HTTP GET request) and receive the response.

How can I make this in Ruby on Rails?

If it is possible, is it a correct approach to use in my controllers?

When should I use GET or POST method? What's the difference between them?

I think the title is my question. I would like to know what's the difference when using GET or POST method. Which one is more secure? What are dis/advantages of each of them?

I also found similar question to this one here...

Passing base64 encoded strings in URL

Is it safe to pass raw base64 encoded strings via GET parameters?

Create a simple HTTP server with Java?

What's the easiest way to create a simple HTTP server with Java? Are there any libraries in commons to facilitate this? I only need to respond to GET/POST, and I can't use an application server.

What's the easiest way to accomplish this?

JavaScript - Get object's methods

Is there a method or propertie to get all methods from an object? For example:

function foo() {}
foo.prototype.a = function() {}
foo.prototype.b = function() {}

foo.get_methods(); // returns ['a', 'b'];

UPDATE: Are there any method like that in Jquery?

Thank you.

How to set timeout for http.Get() requests in golang?

I'm making a url fetcher in go and have a list of urls to fetch. I send http.Get() requests to each url and obtain their response.

resp,fetch_err := http.Get(url)

How can I set a custom timeout for each Get request? (The default time is very long and that makes my fetcher really slow.) I want my fetcher to have a timeout of around 40-45 seconds after which it should return "request timed out" and move on to the next url.

How can I achieve this?

HTTP GET request in JavaScript?

I need to do an HTTP GET request in JavaScript. What's the best way to do that?

I need to do this in a Mac OS X dashcode widget.

Logout: GET or POST?

This question is not about when to use GET or POST in general; it is about which is the recommended one for handling logging out of a web application. I have found plenty of information on the differences between GET and POST in the general sense, but I did not find a definite answer for this particular scenario.

As a pragmatist, I'm inclined to use GET, because implementing it is way simpler than POST; just drop a simple link and you're done. This seems to be case with the vast majority of websites I can think of, at least from the top of my head. Even Stack Overflow handles logging out with GET.

The thing making me hesitate is the (albeit old) argument that some web accelerators/proxies pre-cache pages by going and retrieving every link they find in the page, so the user gets a faster response when she clicks on them. I'm not sure if this still applies, but if this was the case, then in theory a user with one of these accelerators would get kicked out of the application as soon as she logs in, because her accelerator would find and retrieve the logout link even if she never clicked on it.

Everything I have read so far suggest that POST should be used for "destructive actions", whereas actions that do not alter the internal state of the application -like querying and such- should be handled with GET. Based on this, the real question here is:

Is logging out of an application considered a destructive action/does it alter the internal state of the application?

post and get with same method signature

In my controller I have two actions called "Friends". The one that executes depends on whether or not it's a "get" versus a "post".

So my code snippets look something like this:

// Get:
[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)]
public ActionResult Friends()
{
    // do some stuff
    return View();
}

// Post:
[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult Friends()
{
    // do some stuff
    return View();
}

However, this does not compile since I have two methods with the same signature (Friends). How do I go about creating this? Do I need to create just one action but differentiate between a "get" and "post" inside of it? If so, how do I do that?

GET parameters in the URL with CodeIgniter

I know that codeIgniter turns off GET parameters by default.

But by having everything done in POST, don't you get annoyed by the re-send data requests if ever you press back after a form submission?

It annoys me, but I'm not sure if I want to allow GET purely for this reason.

Is it such a big security issue to allow GET parameters too?

Tutorials for using HTTP POST and GET on the iPhone in Objective-C [closed]

I downloaded apple's demo for using HTTP POST and GET (Their sample app has a tabbar with different parts) and the code is so confusing!

Could anybody give me some sample code or a link to some tutorials about it? :)

Thanks!

Are HTTPS headers encrypted?

When sending data over HTTPS, I know the content is encrypted, however I hear mixed answers about whether the headers are encrypted, or how much of the header is encrypted.

How much of HTTPS headers are encrypted?

Including GET/POST request URLs, Cookies, etc.

PHP Get all subdirectories of a given directory

How can I get all sub-directories of a given directory without files, .(current directory) or ..(parent directory) and then use each directory in a function?

How to pass parameters in GET requests with jQuery

How should I be passing query string values in a jQuery Ajax request? I currently do them as follows but I'm sure there is a cleaner way that does not require me to encode manually.

$.ajax({
    url: "ajax.aspx?ajaxid=4&UserID=" + UserID + "&EmailAddress=" + encodeURIComponent(EmailAddress),
    success: function(response) {
        //Do Something
    },
    error: function(xhr) {
        //Do Something to handle error
    }
});

I’ve seen examples where query string parameters are passed as an array but these examples I've seen don't use the $.ajax() model, instead they go straight to $.get(). For example:

$.get("ajax.aspx", { UserID: UserID , EmailAddress: EmailAddress } );

I prefer to use the $.ajax() format as it's what I’m used to (no particularly good reason - just a personal preference).

Edit 09/04/2013:

After my question was closed (as "Too Localised") i found a related (identical) question - with 3 upvotes no-less (My bad for not finding it in the first place):

Using jquery to make a POST, how to properly supply 'data' parameter?

This answered my question perfectly, I found that doing it this way is much easier to read & I don't need to manually use encodeURIComponent() in the URL or the DATA values (which is what i found unclear in bipen's answer). This is because the data value is encoded automatically via $.param()). Just in case this can be of use to anyone else, this is the example I went with:

$.ajax({
    url: "ajax.aspx?ajaxid=4",
    data: { 
        "VarA": VarA, 
        "VarB": VarB, 
        "VarC": VarC
    },
    cache: false,
    type: "POST",
    success: function(response) {

    },
    error: function(xhr) {

    }
});