Forms/QueryStrings/GET/POST 1

[1DMF]

Can someone help clarify the POSTvsGET method.

If I have a form with INPUT tags and submit it with method="post" that is sending POST variable, yes?

If I have a form with INPUT tags and submit it with method="get" that is getting the data to populate the from via GET, yes ?

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What is a URL Query String? is it a GET method or a POST method?

And why would a URL QUERY string work over a submitted form using the POST method.

Thanks, 1DMF.

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

 

[Tarwn]

A GET method uses the Querystring to send information, a POST sends it as an a attachment in the HTTP headers.

The advantage of a GET over a POST is that a GET doesn't require a form, you can create the Querystring manually if you want, have it sitting as a link on your page, whatever. The disadvantage of GET over POST is that GET has a size limit. Well, more correctly, GET has size limits. See, there is no size limit specified in the standards, so differant browsers have differant limits for querystring...which can make things interesting.

-T

 

[1DMF]

Thanks for the reply,

so if a form has method="GET" it puts the data on the URL as a QueryString.

What I thought, and needed to know as I had the API documentation and it said I needed to POST the data but that doesn't work, yet if I use a QUERY string (which I thought was a GET method) it works, so therefore their documentation is wrong as it required a GET method to work not POST.

Cheers,
1DMF.

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.