Posted by Toby A Inkster on 10/06/83 12:00

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> Another consideration - GET URLs can be bookmarked. POST URLs cannot.
> So, for instance, if you're displaying a restaurant from a list, GET
> would be good so the user could bookmark it. But if you're adding data
> to a database, you wouldn't want them to add it every time they visit
> the page so you'd want to use POST.

And another: Login forms should normally be POSTed, so as not to reveal
the password in the browser's address bar.

One more: for file uploads, you'll need to POST.

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