POST: sending a post request in a url itself

Question

I have been given a url .. www.abc.com/details and asked to send my name and phone number on this url using POST. They have told me to set the content-type as application/json and the body as valid JSON with the following keys:

name: name of the user phone number: phone number of the user 

Now i have no clue how to send this request! Will it be something like:

http://www.abc.com/details?method=post&name=john&phonenumber=445566 

or do i have to use java to send the same?

Please help

Answer 1

Based on what you provided, it is pretty simple for what you need to do and you even have a number of ways to go about doing it. You'll need something that'll let you post a body with your request. Almost any programming language can do this as well as command line tools like cURL.

One you have your tool decided, you'll need to create your JSON body and submit it to the server.

An example using cURL would be (all in one line, minus the \ at the end of the first line):

curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \      -d '{"name":"your name","phonenumber":"111-111"}' http://www.abc.com/details 

The above command will create a request that should look like the following:

POST /details HTTP/1.1 Host: www.abc.com Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 44  {"name":"your name","phonenumber":"111-111"} 

Answer 2

You can post data to a url with JavaScript & Jquery something like that:

$.post("www.abc.com/details", {     json_string: JSON.stringify({name:"John", phone number:"+410000000"}) });