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Can HTTP POST be used for a RESTful service?

 
Dan Drillich
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Good Day,

I see a web service that uses HTTP POST with XML documents for requests and responses. The documentation of this web service refers to it as a RESTful service. Is it right? Because I was under the impression that RESTful services can only use HTTP GETs...

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It could be right... check out this table in the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer#RESTful_web_services to see what a POST method is supposed to be able to do.

I'm not saying that your web service is in fact using POST correctly, only that it's possible to use POST in a RESTful web service.
 
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Thank you Paul.

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Dan Drillich wrote:Because I was under the impression that RESTful services can only use HTTP GETs...


Nope, the full range of HTTP methods can be used. I wonder where that impression came from?

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