[thelist] What is the Difference between post and get?

Fri Apr 27 14:42:37 CDT 2001

Morbus Iff wrote:

>  When you think about security, the above makes sense. If GET encodes the
> junk into the URL, and the junk messes with some data on the server in a
> "gonna change you, poo poo kachoo" sort of way, then that's bad, since
> anyone could modify the URL to give values you weren't expecting.

I've never heard it put quite that way before.

<tip>New metatag from Aesop for you search engine buffs out there:
<head>
<meta name=aesop content=one of six values>
</head>
Content tag values are: sales, interactive, multimedia, links, personal,
information.
Hey, every little bit helps.
</tip>

Meredith

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