HTTP – the basics of the GET and POST methods

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) allows a client (for example, the web browser) to interact with a server (our application). Given a URL of a server web page, the GET method is the way the client queries data from the server, specifying some parameters. This can be explained using the curl command, as follows:

curl -X GET url_path?name1=value1&name2=value2

After the ? symbol, the name/value pair specifies which data to query, and they are separated by a & symbol.

The way a client transfers data to the server is called POST, and the data is in the body of the call:

curl -X POST  -d @datafile.txt url_path

Now we can start discussing how to create a new server and an application using Django.

Installation and server creation

The Django library is installed by typing the following command in the Terminal:

sudo pip instal django

The command should install Django Version 1.7 or above (the author used version 1.7). In order to start a new...