POST / PUT data in readme misleading about http-console HOT 6 OPEN

They both work actually, it depends what the server accepts. It's just raw data, so in the later case the server needs to parse it as json. http-console doesn't care what you type in there.

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understood.

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I'd like to humbly predict that inserting a super-brief explanation of typical formatting of POST arguments from a regular HTML web form will save other people time. I'm not the sharpest pencil in the drawer, but I'm also not atypical, and it cost me about an hour of poking around.

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Good idea.

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Got POST with form data to work:
$ http-console localhost $ http://localhost:80/> /myapp/ $ http://localhost:80/myapp/login.php> Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded $ http://localhost:80/myapp/login.php> post $ ... username=admin&password=admin

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@bbn Thanks for the explanation cause the readme was not working for me. 👍

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