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Tips&Tricks for the modern day web designer

Learn when to use GET and POST

Submitted by: Patrick Allaert. on November 23, 2009.

HTTP GET promotes URI addressability so, designers should adopt it for safe operations such as simple queries. POST is appropriate for other types of applications where a user request has the potential to change the state of the resource (or of related resources).

Read the outside article: URIs, Addressability, and the use of HTTP GET and POST

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