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Is type: GET faster than type: POST cause I am curious how both work.

All I know is type: POST never touch type: GET yet.

What you guys wanna recommend on me whether I use get or post.

RavatSinh Sisodiya
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  • Get is actually in the url bar while post is data sent along with the request I believe. It depends what you are doing really, get is good for stuff like page numbers and post is better for login forms. – Lemon Drop Apr 02 '13 at 06:56
  • gets are persistent data (can be bookmarked) and posts are hidden. posts are good for file uploads, password/login and gets are good for items using db's for fetching items, etc. Thats just a simplification of gets/posts. – Class Apr 02 '13 at 06:56
  • posting data is recommended – mymotherland Apr 02 '13 at 06:58
  • Please also consider the limitations between two : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10966519/http-get-and-post-semantics-and-limitations – Jean Apr 02 '13 at 06:59
  • possible duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1211881/why-get-method-is-faster-than-post –  Apr 02 '13 at 06:59

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I don't think that one is faster than the other. but yes there are other differences.

  • GET sends all data in Query string and it visible to every user on address bar, while it is not true for POST
  • GET has certain data limits and you can't exceed that limit (Dependent on client and server and in some cases proxy server, usually around 8kb) . but for POST you can send as many bytes as you want.
  • If you want to use File upload feature, you will have to use POST.
Muhammad Ummar
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Performance GET or POST depends on how it is implemented on server side.

You should more concerned about RESTful convention here.

GET : Retrieve a representation of the entry specified by the url.

POST: Create a new entry.

Look more here.

Subir Kumar Sao
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Posting a data is better than an GET data because of some reasons

  1. we cont send more data through the url so GET method is limited to some extent

  2. we cont send special characters through url like Emails but through the post we can send any type of data

  3. Post is bit secure than get because through the url you can see which data is going to send to the next page but through post we con't get them easily but we can also get them via inpect elemnts in that page

  4. File or image uploadings are also done through the post method only but not with GET

GautamD31
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