Generate more leads with the Quora Lead Gen Forms + HTTP Request (GET/POST) integration

Quora recently released in beta the new Quora Lead Gen Forms, a kind of forms that help Quora companies and users to exchange valuable information with each other through pre-filled forms.

Functionality and benefits? Users will ask to fill out the form, entering their data, after clicking on the sponsored content with a call to action, for example, to download a report. Currently, Quora Lead Gen Forms is in beta for both Desktop and Smartphone mode. Surely this tool will be a valid method to collect leads directly on Quora.

Quora Lead Gen Forms offers advertisers another channel to acquire leads. With 75% of users accessing Quora via smartphone, the new features of the gen lead modules provide users a more natural way to share information without the hassle of leaving the mobile platform.

HTTP is a protocol that works with a client / server architecture. The client makes a request, and the server returns the response. In common use, the client corresponds to the browser and server the machine on which the website resides. There are therefore, two types of HTTP messages: request messages and reply messages.

HTTP differs from other layers seven protocol such as FTP, because connections are generally closed once a particular request (or a series of related requests) has been met.

This behavior makes the HTTP protocol ideal for the World Wide Web, where the pages very often contain links to pages hosted by other servers thus decreasing the number of active connections limiting them to those actually needed with an increase in efficiency (lower load and occupancy) both on the client and on the server. However, sometimes it poses problems for web content developers, because the stateless nature of the browsing session forces to use alternative methods (typically based on cookies) to preserve the user's status.