what the difference between querstring payload in a post params? - python-requests

I am confused by the params in firefox developer->network->Params,
it has two type params(query string and Request Payload).what the difference between them,and how can I get right response with python requests module?

Query string: parameters passed in the url of GET requests.
http://domain.com/page?PARAM1=VALUE1&PARAM2=VALUE2
you can send GET requests with pyhton method requests.get(...)
Request payload: parameters passed internally by the HTTP protocol, in the POST requests. You can send POST requests with the pyhton method requests.post(...)
Take a look at the requests documentation

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In Nifi, how do I get the HandleHttpResponse to return the reponse of the invokeHttp processor?

Right now my flow is: input -> invokeHTTP -> handleHttpRespone
My invokeHTTP makes a POST request and returns a message. However, it still responds with the payload I sent to it using Postman. Do I need to use ReplaceText or some other processor before the response handler?
#DamienScott invokeHttp should return the response for the post to the Flow file which goes to success route. In the configuration of InvokeHttp is "Put Response Body In Attribute" which by default should be empty to allow the response to go to the FlowFile.

What is the difference between client HTTP request and server HTTP request in Golang's "net/http"

I have seen people use NewRequest() method of the "net/http" package for testing APIs. Why not use the NewRequest() method from "net/http/httptesting"? What's the difference? Documentation advises the following:
// To generate a client HTTP request instead of a server request, see
// the NewRequest function in the net/http package.
What would be the difference in handling cookies, for example? Both seem to be very similar.
TL;DR: they're the same type, used a bit differently for two use cases and initialized differently to serve these use cases
The difference is only in usage - they are the same type http.Request. http.NewRequest is used for the more "production" use case which is client - "create a new request to send to the server". When writing HTTP servers, it's occasionally useful to create requests for testing, which is what httptest.NewRequest does. The doc of http.NewRequest is helpful here:
NewRequest returns a Request suitable for use with Client.Do or
Transport.RoundTrip. To create a request for use with testing a Server
Handler, either use the NewRequest function in the net/http/httptest
package, use ReadRequest, or manually update the Request fields. See
the Request type's documentation for the difference between inbound
and outbound request fields.
If you check the docs of the http.Request type, you'll find things like:
// URL specifies either the URI being requested (for server
// requests) or the URL to access (for client requests).
//
// For server requests, the URL is parsed from the URI
// supplied on the Request-Line as stored in RequestURI. For
// most requests, fields other than Path and RawQuery will be
// empty. (See RFC 7230, Section 5.3)
//
// For client requests, the URL's Host specifies the server to
// connect to, while the Request's Host field optionally
// specifies the Host header value to send in the HTTP
// request.
URL *url.URL
Note the "For client requests" vs. "For server requests".
If you see a place that doesn't use httptest.NewRequest it could be because:
They're not aware of it
Or they need more careful fine-tuning that http.NewRequest doesn't provide

Akka HTTP - How to get the raw (not URL decoded) request URL?

I am using Akka HTTP and having the following HTTP request:
http://www.example.com?p1=1&p2=2&p3=http://www.example.net?a=1&b=2%203
Is there a way in Akka HTTP to get the full raw (not URL decoded) request URL? I would like to get the full raw request URL as it is
http://www.example.com?p1=1&p2=2&p3=http://www.example.net?a=1&b=2%203
parse it and get everything after "p3=".
Turn on the akka.http.server.raw-request-uri-header configuration setting, and the raw request URI will be included as the value for a header named Raw-Request-URI.
In other words, in your application.conf, set the following:
akka.http.server.raw-request-uri-header = on
Then obtain the raw request URI from the Raw-Request-URI header.
From the documentation:
Sometimes it may be needed to obtain the “raw” value of an incoming URI, without applying any escaping or parsing to it. While this use case is rare, it comes up every once in a while. It is possible to obtain the “raw” request URI in Akka HTTP Server side by turning on the akka.http.server.raw-request-uri-header flag. When enabled, a Raw-Request-URI header will be added to each request. This header will hold the original raw request’s URI that was used. For an example check the reference configuration.

How to pass dynamic headers to the Http Request in jMeter?

There is a initial request going to the server which should retrieve the CSRF token and use that token id in post request header.
if that does not happen any POST requests to the server will return that error.
In the above screen shot, where token is the request to get the CSRF token Id, If I run the test this will generate one dynamic random token ID. But I need to pass the generated token ID in the post request through Header Manager. How can it possible. If yes, Can any one suggest some way to do that.
I resolved it by using User defined variables and Regular Expression Extractor to pass the parameters from one request sampler to another.
In the firs request add a postprocesor of the request. if the response is un json format user json Extractor, in json Extractor define a variable that read the token
In the second request add a header Manager an refer varaible declare in json Extractor in the following way in value cell, ${variable}

Does REST send its payload in the URL of the request? What about SOAP?

Do SOAP and REST put their respective payloads as a URL? For example:
http://localhost/action/?var=datadatadata
I know SOAP uses XML and sometimes runs on a different port on the server, but do you still submit data like the example above or do you send it as one big XML encapsulated packet to that port?
It depends on your HTTP method. GET method will put everything into URL while POST method only put path information in URL and the rest of them are streamed into the HTTP request body.
SOAP should also rely on HTTP protocol and hence should follow the same rule. Check out http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part0/#L10309

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