On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:12:05PM +1300, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > xkorakidis wrote: > >Webmaster, thanks very much but I think it would be safer to do that by > >post, not by get. Furthermore, if I use indivudual files > > The difference between POST and GET lies in the semantics -- POST > represents something changing on the server, e.g. updating a database > field, and allows the browser to warn the user if they try to refresh. > GET represents nothing of importance changing on the server, e.g. > performing a search on the database, and can safely be repeated.
Another good reason to use POST to modify data, consider the link: http://example.com/posts.php?postid=1&action=delete If googlebot comes across your page containing a list of all your posts, with a link like that, you just might wake up one morning wondering why all your posts are gone. Curt. -- cat .signature: No such file or directory -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
