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Posted by Andy Hassall on 07/30/05 01:32
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:43:29 GMT, "Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com>
wrote:
>I have a question that is going to make me look stupid, but as I am new to
>html and php (2 months), I'll as it anyway.
>
>I have been using POST as the action and to get values that were input. I
>understand that GET could also be used as the action (not just to get stuff
>after the "?" which I understand).
>
>a. When should GEt be used and when should POST be used?
>b. What is the difference between the two?
Over to the standard which has a brief explanation:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.1
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