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POST HTML requests can’t be bookmarked but GET ones can be. The reason given is that the parameters are appended in the case of GET whereas they are not in POST. Why can’t the browser search POST HTML requests body for the parameters and then bookmark the pages like for GET ?
Theoretically speaking — they could.
They shouldn’t though, as POST requests are supposed to “request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource”.
Examples given by the spec are:
None of these are repeatable operations, so it doesn’t make sense for the browser to store the request in a repeatable fashion.