GET to POST Converter

This online utility converts the GET request from a URL into a POST request. It enables links with POST parameter values to be cited in text or bookmarked.

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Alternative Methods

  1. The URL to be converted can also be added onto the URL for this webpage, separated by a question mark. E.g:
    http://www.gettopost.com/gettopost.html?http://www.urltoconvert.com?postparam1=value1&postparam2=value2
    This enables links with POST parameter values to be cited in text or bookmarked.

  2. A Search Plugin for Mozilla Firefox is available here. This enables links requiring GET to POST conversion to be entered directly into the web browser's search box.

  3. Here is a bookmarklet that will extract and display URLs for all the forms in a webpage:   Get Form URLs
    To install, either drag the bookmarklet onto the web browser's Bookmarks Toolbar (Firefox) or Personal Bar (Opera) or right-click on it and save it as a favorite (Internet Explorer).
    To use it, simply fill in the details to include in the relevant form(s) and then click on the "Get Form URLs" link or button. The form URLs will then be presented one by one in a dialog box. Copy and paste any URL(s) that you wish to keep into a text editor (e.g. Notepad). Click on "OK" to display the next form URL or "Cancel" to finish.

Conception

The tool was created to help with debugging AJAX calls to server "worker" files (written in PHP). They had originally taken GET parameters but these were later changed into POST parameters. But there didn't seem to be any easy way of testing the worker files by sending POST parameters from a web browser - hence the writing of some Javascript and Dynamic HTML to perform the task.

Limitations

  1. This webpage is hosted on an Apache server, on which the maximum length of a URL is 4000 characters. The length of URLs may also be limited by the web browser - see http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urllength.html for more information.
  2. Many websites impose a security policy in order to minimise unwanted traffic. Some maintain a "whitelist" of permitted sites or IP addresses from which POST requests are accepted. Access to webpages on sites such as these may be blocked when using this utility.

Contact

© 2007 Steve Chambers (stec77@gmail.com). Feedback is welcome.