POST data

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POST data

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@tcopestake Thanks, that would be awesome 👍

Support for POST was the very next on my list (days away). I'm currently adding user authentication and POST is obviously a requirement. If you could contribute it, that would be excellent! Also, if you have already implemented file data support in your codebase and can easily port it over, that would be super.

I like the idea of Input.post / Input.get / Input.files / etc. Right now the GET params are passed into a params dict that's passed into the controller methods. If you can provide Input.post and Input.files I'm happy to unify the APIs by adding Input.get and maybe drop params completely.

Lazy processing the input can't hurt, although I can't see too many cases where we'd want to ignore what's being sent over the wire (maybe in the case of a DoS attack)?

[EricForgy]

I submitted a PR to URIParsers.jl ( JuliaWeb/URIParser.jl#32 ) to allow easy processing of POST requests. I use this together with Pages.jl. We can all compare notes :)

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@tcopestake
I've been successfully using Input.post in Genie for a while now - happy to say it works great!

However, I've stumbled into an issue: when POST-ing data, the spaces in the submitted data are replaced by "+". I can easily convert the "+" to " " in my POST processing function, but then the trouble is, it will also replace plus symbols inserted by the user.

It would be awesome if the library would be extended to output the user input as exactly submitted (preserving spaces and plus symbols).