What are methods?

Craft-Web Methods are similar to HTTP Methods, in such a way that allows them to alter how the client communicates to the server. Methods can serve a variety of purposes to meet your needs!

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• GET

  • Purpose:

  Receives a file from the server, and displays its contents on screen

  • URL Syntax:

  Follow the format cw://[id]?/[file on server] when crafting the URL. For a more detailed breakdown, go to How It Works

  Example:

  Say I have a file named data.cml on my server with the id 25 that I want to view. To do so, I’d type the URL:

  cw://25?/data.cml

• POST

  • Purpose:

  Sends a file to the server

  • URL Syntax:

  Input your URL as you when using GET, except when at the server path you want to place the file, use the @ symbol followed by the word in all-caps “POST”, then a colon with the path to the file you want to send to the server.

  Example:

  Suppose I wanted to send my file diary.cml from the directory /home/ into the server’s directory /uploads. Then I’d do:

  cw://0?/uploads/@POST:/home/dairy.cml

• DELETE

  • Purpose:

  Removes/deletes a file on the server

  • URL Syntax

  Similar to a POST method, you’d include the @ symbol. Though, in this case, you’d do it after the file from the server’s file directory.

  Example:

  Let’s say I wanted to delete secret-stuff.cml from my server with the id 55. To do so you’d do:

  cw://55?/secret-stuff.cml@DELETE