How does the POST method work?

[eekthecat]

Hi,

I would like to know the following.

When you use the GET method the data is put in a string in the adress. But what about when you use the POST method. What happens than? Where does the data go to? Is it written in a buffer of some kind?

Can someone hepl me?

Thanx!

Eek

Yea I know I'm stupid... :-$

 

[Karl Blessing]

--------- POST ---------
on Sender
<form method=&quot;post&quot;.....>

on Receiver
Request.Form(&quot;SomeVariablePassed&quot ....

URL address bar Shows
Plain URL, no ?Var=something&amp;something etc

--------- GET ---------
on Sender
<form method=&quot;get&quot;.....>

on Receiver
Request(&quot;SomeVariablePassed&quot ....

URL address bar Shows
TheURL?Var=something&amp;something etc

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A Benefit of using a Get would be that if your ASP is expected to be sumited to with attached parameters, and if you use a form submit, instead of checking for a form, using &quot;Get&quot; makes it so you can get it with Request every time rather than Request.Form, using &quot;Post&quot; makes the Url bar clean, thus would be bit better for somewhat sentative information.
Karl
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