Re: Submitting as POST. Why?

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barophobia wrote:
> My Peeps,
> 
> I only know of one reason to submit a form as POST and that is because
> you can submit more data in one shot.
> 
> 
> What other reasons are there?

upload a file?
not have bag of cruft in the url/addressbar?
because POST and GET are semantically different ...

POST assumes that the submission may have side effects (e.g. registration, send a email, update a page)
GET assumes no such thing, you merely 'get' a page from the server.

> 
> 
> 
> Chris.
> 

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