2011/3/26 <richardcav...@mail.com>: > I can see that there are avantages to putting parameters into POST > data. Are there any advantages to a bot putting parameters into the > URL? The only advantage I can think of is caching. If you're repeating the same request a number of times and want any caching proxies between you and the server (e.g. Wikimedia's Squid servers) to cache the result for you, you can put &smaxage=3600 (or any number of seconds) in the URL. This only works for GET requests and only when the URLs are exactly the same both times.
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