Posted by Mason Barge on 01/26/08 16:58

"Evan Jou" <l.jou@att.net> wrote in message
news:Sh9mj.163711$MJ6.19462@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Hi there,
>
> I have a simple question for you experts here. If I key in a URL like,
> for example, http://localhost/test.php?name=Evan&password=Jou directly,
> will it send the name and password data to the test.php script? Can I use
> $_GET['name'] and $_GET['password'] to manipulate the data? Thank you in
> advance. :)
>
> Evan Jou

Yes. In fact, if you bookmark the page, that's exactly what your browser
does.

I's a major reason for the plusses and minuses of GET method (most of the
minuses being security related).

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