Today I learned
Encoding POST request body
Today I learned, that passing unencoded text into the body of a POST request is a bad idea. It could result in security issues and therefore always should be encoded.
One approach to resolve this is using URLSearchParams
. You can learn more
about the API on mdn:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchParams ↗
Jake Archibald wrote a blog post about this topic, where he explains it in more depth: https://jakearchibald.com/2021/encoding-data-for-post-requests ↗
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