post-method

Is my form password being passed in clear text?

This is what my browser sent, when logging into some site: POST http://www.some.site/login.php HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Opera/8.26 (X2000; Linux i686; Z; en) Host: www.some.site Accept: text/html, application/xml;q=0.9, application/xhtml+xml, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, */*;q=0.1 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9 Accep...

Apache Commons HttpClient PostMethod support?

I am curios about how one can set the request properties for a PostMethod in Apache Commons HttpClient? I am refactoring some code written using HttpURLConnection class to post which looks like the following: conn1.setRequestProperty( "Content-Type", "multipart/related; type=\"application/xml\"; boundary=" + boundary); conn1.s...

ASP.NET MVC How to specify additional parameters in POST method?

Hi, in my MVC application I have a controller (ProjectController) which has an action (create). The create function accepts a projectEntity (custom 3d party datalayer component) as a parameter. The framework automatically binds the entered form values to the projectEntity object. This is the create-function signature: <AcceptVerbs(Htt...

POST method, Ajax and Security?

I use Ajax (jQuery) and the POST method to update data in the database. I do the following: Get data from the form: user_id, entry_id, content,... Send them to a URL which will process the data. If the data is valid, we will record them in our database. I do not know how to verify that the user sends data from my website and not from...

Why is request method send to web server called GET and POST?

I guessed that the name of each of the request method has a relationship with the operations they performed in some manner. But I can't get it! Detials: GET means posted argument are showed in the url and POST means they are sent but not shown in the url. But what is that related to POST/GET? What is gotten/posted or what does the post...

POST to default page

Why is it not OK to do a HTTP.Post to the default page on ASP.NET I have a default.aspx file that i want to be accessed when an external utility do a post to the http://{ip}/WebSiteName I want that the actual post will be to this page: http://{ip}/WebSiteName/Defualt.aspx or http://{ip}/WebSiteName/Handler.ashx I thin...

[VB6] Post Method + WinHttpRequest + multipart/form-data

I'm stumped why this doesn't work can't seem to find any problems. Here is the code. Public Const MULTIPART_BOUNDARY = "speed" Function getBalance() As String Dim sEntityBody As String Dim postBody() As Byte Dim username As String Dim password As String username = CStr(frmMain.txtUser.text) password = CStr(frmMain.txtPass.text) sEnti...