METHOD=GET
and
METHOD=POST
.GET
GET
request is issued to the ACTION
URL specified
in the <FORM>
markup tag, with the
urlencoded form information appended after a separating
"?
" character. This can generate
very long URLs.POST
POST
transaction
is performed. The "body" of the transaction contains the urlencoded
form data, as a single long line of text. The POST transaction is
directed at the URL specified in the ACTION
attribute of the <FORM>
tag.GET
and
POST
methods are used pretty much
interchangeably, depending on the programmer's or system designer's
preference. Lecture 06: Applications #3.2: HTTP | Copyright © 2003 P.Scott, La Trobe University Bendigo. |