Silas Sewell - March 2008 http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2008/03 Infrastructure Development Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.silassewell.com/ en hourly 1 Post a Get http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2008/03/30/post-a-get/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT silas http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2008/03/30/post-a-get/ I've created a PHP script called Post a Get which can be copied to any PHP capable server and used to created a POST request using GET syntax.

Let's say you use GoDaddy as your domain registrar and you would like to see if a domain is available using Firefox keywords, but they don't offer a GET search.

For a traditional keyword, you could construct a GET request like:

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/registrar/search.asp&checkAvail=1&fblur=1&tld=.com&domainToCheck=%s

But as of right now Firefox doesn't offer a way to create POST keywords. What Post a Fix does is allow you to construct a POST request using GET syntax and pass it to the Post a Get code.

So if you wanted to submit the above GET as a POST, you would construct the URL and append the special __action parameter with target URL. So the final URL would look something like:

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