Re: [IUG] "Post" vs "Get" on my search boxes <forms>

[Ed Seedhouse <ed at gvpl dot ca>]

Heather Parker wrote:
> I noticed that search boxes on our site have both "get" and "post".  What is the different, which one is recommended and are they interchangeable?
>
> I did look this up, but I want a simple answer that I can understand. :>

Get sends the information out in the open tacked on to the end of the 
url string.  PUT sends it separately in another HTPP header that you 
don't see normally with the browser.  PUT also has more room and you can 
send more with it.  Some folks think PUT is more secure but anyone who 
really wants to can find the POST data as well.

When you click on a link in your browser, your browser actually conducts 
a fairly sophisticated back and forth discussion with the remote server, 
most of which you don't see.  The information is sent back and forth in 
the form of HTTP headers.