So why should we use POST instead of GET to publish data?

Question

Possible duplicates:
How to choose GET and POST methods in HTML forms? When do you use POST and when do you use GET?

Obviously you need to. But, in addition to running the HTTP protocol, are there any reasons for this? Less overhead? Something like a safety thing?

Answer 1

since GET cannot change server state by definition.

see RFC2616 9.1.1 Safe Methods :

9.1.1 Safe Methods

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Answer 2

W3C : URI, HTTP GET POST.

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

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