Firefox Add-on RESTclient - How to input POST parameters?

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Rukshan Marapana picture Rukshan Marapana · Oct 30, 2012 · Viewed 192.8k times · Source

I've installed Firefox RESTclient add-on but , I'm having hard time figuring out how to pass POST parameters. Is there a specific format to do this? Or is there any other tool which can be used to debug an REST API on Mac OS X ?

Answer

Mahmoud Khaled picture Mahmoud Khaled · Jan 9, 2013

If you want to submit a POST request

  1. You have to set the “request header” section of the Firefox plugin to have a “name” = “Content-Type” and “value” = “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”
  2. Now, you are able to submit parameter like “name=mynamehere&title=TA” in the “request body” text area field

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