There are many reasons to choose one or the other. A good one for POST is file uploads, where the input values could be very very large (think mega or giga bytes of data) or binary which would have to be encoded and then unencoded in some manner, whereas this is less of a problem over a stream.
POST however requires "more" user interaction, that is submitting a form, etc. Where a GET is just a simple link, which makes building dynamic sites easy, for instance where a CGI prints links to a page that is different for each user, rather than requiring each of those links to be a form, a user can just click, and they "unknowingly" just submitted a GET to a CGI that then generates another dynamic page (sure this can be done with cookies but who needs the hassle, and there is a limit to how many and how large cookies can be). This is a rather broad question and generally makes more sense with experience.... http://danconia.org ------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:17:36 -0500, Susan Aurand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know the POST Method the data is sent to STDIN, and GET method the data is >attached to the URL and > then submitted. When and why would you want to use the GET method versus the POST >method. Is is > because of firewalls? or what? I would appreciate any input on this subject. > Thank You. > Susan Evans > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
