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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/24/18 12:00
Manuel Lemos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> on 01/15/2008 12:19 AM Kurda Yon said the following:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have to decide which form-method I should use (GET or POST). I found
>> the following recomendation:
>> If the service associated with the processing of a form has side
>> effects (for example, modification of a database or subscription to a
>> service), the method should be POST. (http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
>> forms/methods.html).
>>
>> However, later I did not find any convinced arguments why it should
>> help (it can be that I just did not understand something).
>>
>> So, I have decided not to go into the details of GET and POST methods
>> and just use POST. Is here any significant difference between GET and
>> POST which I should worry about (like security issues or something
>> else)? Or it is just question of convenience?
>
> I think with GET you are limited to sending with no more than 255
> characters. Above that the browser may chop your submission URL.
>
Incorrect. There is no standard, and different browsers handle things
differently. I've seen people pass > 1K in a GET request - although I
definitely do NOT recommend it! :-)
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