Two HTTP Request Methods: GET and POST<\/p>\n
Two commonly used methods for a request-response between a client and server are: GET and POST.<\/p>\n
The GET Method<\/p>\n
Note that query strings (name\/value pairs) is sent in the URL of a GET request:<\/b><\/p>\n
\/test\/demo_form.asp?name1=value1&name2=value2<\/b><\/p>\n
Some other notes on GET requests:<\/b><\/p>\n The POST Method<\/p>\n Note that query strings (name\/value pairs) is sent in the HTTP message body of a POST request:<\/b><\/p>\n POST \/test\/demo_form.asp HTTP\/1.1 Some other notes on POST requests:<\/b><\/p>\n Compare GET vs. POST<\/p>\n The following table compares the two HTTP methods: GET and POST.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n GET<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n POST<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n —Below hyper link for more detail about GET and POST ——————–<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/key-differences-post\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two HTTP Request Methods: GET and POST Two commonly used methods for a request-response between a client and server are: GET and POST. GET – Requests data from a specified resource POST – Submits data to be processed to a specified resource The GET Method Note that query strings (name\/value pairs) is sent in the URL of a GET request:… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-vb","category-jquery","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mairwa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mairwa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mairwa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mairwa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mairwa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mairwa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mairwa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mairwa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mairwa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n \n \n \n \n BACK button\/Reload<\/td>\n Harmless<\/td>\n Data will be re-submitted (the browser should alert the user that the data are about to be re-submitted)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Bookmarked<\/td>\n Can be bookmarked<\/td>\n Cannot be bookmarked<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Cached<\/td>\n Can be cached<\/td>\n Not cached<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Encoding type<\/td>\n application\/x-www-form-urlencoded<\/td>\n application\/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart\/form-data. Use multipart encoding for binary data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n History<\/td>\n Parameters remain in browser history<\/td>\n Parameters are not saved in browser history<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Restrictions on data length<\/td>\n Yes, when sending data, the GET method adds the data to the URL; and the length of a URL is limited (maximum URL length is 2048 characters)<\/td>\n No restrictions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Restrictions on data type<\/td>\n Only ASCII characters allowed<\/td>\n No restrictions. Binary data is also allowed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Security<\/td>\n GET is less secure compared to POST because data sent is part of the URLNever use GET when sending passwords or other sensitive information!<\/td>\n POST is a little safer than GET because the parameters are not stored in browser history or in web server logs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Visibility<\/td>\n Data is visible to everyone in the URL<\/td>\n Data is not displayed in the URL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n