[thelist] GET requests and sent content

[Hassan Schroeder]

Paul Bennett wrote:

> I have been told 
> by the very knowledgable lead developer that normal form get and post 
> requests also send back the entire html of the page they are on and 
> hence they use JS to minimize the size of the sent data.
> 
> This to me seems ludicrous. 

I think you're totally misunderstanding his point; a standard GET
or POST results in all the HTML for a *new* page to be returned to
the client by the server.

Using, say, XMLHTTP to retrieve a small XML dataset clearly uses less
bandwidth, since the page markup itself isn't discarded and replaced.

That would be my interpretation, anyway...

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