HTTP PUT Request Limit

Question

I am developing a RESTful API when I notice something strange.

When I make a POST request to create a new record, the form data is sent in the request payload.

But when I make a PUT request to update the record, it adds the form data to the URL, very similar to the GET request.

URL now has a certain length limit. So what happens if a PUT request has more data than this limit.

Will the PUT request fail?

Is it unsafe to use PUT instead of POST to update a record with large data forms?

EDIT: I am using a NodeJS server. I am using restangular (angular framework) to create my PUT request.

Answer 1

Use customPUT to submit form data in a payload.

baseObj.customPUT(newObj).then(function(xyz){})

Answer 2

Look at these streams

• Can an HTTP PUT request have an application / x -www-form-urlencoded as Content-Type?
• Multiple form data request PHP PUT?
• application / x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart / form-data?

It looks like you can set the title Content-type: multipart/form-dataand become gold. It basically comes down to configuring the query with the relational module and its support on the NodeJS server.