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by seabass-labrax 820 days ago
> Needed to make a hotel reservation, but the online form was broken (NaN for all number inputs, probably broken validator). Was able to guess the expected format and manually issue these requests, which worked.

Bravo for the neat hack, but did you actually get a confirmation email? I'd not be particularly comfortable arriving at a hotel that I'd booked through the direct, unsanctioned and entirely unexpected use of an HTTP endpoint! Perhaps ringing the hotel's telephone would have been more practical ;)