When the use of GET method is justified? Is it OK to always use POST? Is it right that GET is transferred fast then POST?
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When the use of GET method is justified? Is it OK to always use POST? Is it right that GET is transferred fast then POST?
You use post for larger amounts of data, or data that you don’t want to appear within the url. For instance, you don’t want the url to delete a page, or create one, to appear in someones history. Neither do you want to save passwords in this way.
For search strings and such, you can easily use get. It allows users to copy a specific url, like a specific search reasult, or a link to the 5th page in a paginated list.
So, either are ok for their own purposes. The only thing you should remember is the maximum size of 8Kb for an url, including the get parameters.