Posted by Rik on 02/21/07 15:05

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:36:29 +0100, Satya <satya61229@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 20, 11:58 pm, "mosesdinaka...@gmail.com"
> <mosesdinaka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Everybody,
>>
>> As all knows the difference between GET and POST is in the way how
>> the data is transfered,
>>
>> But in case of ajax Though it may be a post Request we need to
>> format a querystring manually and send with the url,
>>
>> My question is there any other way that without sending the query
>> string can we get the post values as in a normal form submit.
>>
>> regards
>> Moses
>
> I only see difference when you retrieve data in PHP/servers side.
> i.e $_POST and $_GET.

That is not entirely true.
A GET request has al it's values in the requested url in the protocol.
This means it's limited in size. A POST request has the POST values in the
body of the request. This means a difference in formatting the data.

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Rik Wasmus

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