I am studying the HTTP methods. I read that GET request can be bookmarked and POST request can not be bookmarked.
Can anybody explain this with an example?
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I am studying the HTTP methods. I read that GET request can be bookmarked
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I am studying the HTTP methods. I read that GET request can be bookmarked and POST request can not be bookmarked.
Can anybody explain this with an example?
Thanks
An HTTP POST can be bookmarked, but since a bookmark only consists of the URL, all of the form parameters will be lost. This will often mean that the web server doesn’t know what to do with the request, since it was expecting some form parameters.
If you submit a form via a GET request, all of the form parameters go into the URL (after the ?), so a bookmark will contain all of the information needed for the webserver to rebuild the page a second time (except for cookies, perhaps, but a webserver is more likely to handle that gracefully)