Get vs Post

[Gittins Gal]

Ive just been completely stumped by a question a permie has asked me (please bear with me - I'm primarily a SQL dev).

I have a page that redirects to another page passing a postcode on the query string. Pretty standard stuff but he asked me why I'm doing a get instead of a post. And I couldn't really answer him.

This isn't sensitive data - is there any reason to use a post over a get in this scenario? Or for that matter a get over a post? I should imagine a post involves squirting more markup over the wire but I have an all encompassing form in the master page anyway so I can't really use that argument.

I'm guessing that in this instance it doesn't matter and it is just a spurious question from a permie.

[Platypus]

Google's quite a handy tool. As an SQL dev perhaps you don't know about it?

HTTP Methods GET vs POST

[Gittins Gal]

Google's quite a handy tool. As an SQL dev perhaps you don't know about it?

HTTP Methods GET vs POST

Thanks. I think....

[minestrone]

If the page is using the postcode to make a different page for each postcode then it should by right have a unique URL with the postcode in it. So a Get.

[Gittins Gal]

If the page is using the postcode to make a different page for each postcode then it should by right have a unique URL with the postcode in it. So a Get.

That's the answer I needed earlier! It would have shut the permie up...

[northernladuk]

I'm guessing that in this instance it doesn't matter and it is just a spurious question from a permie.

Possibly but sounds like you proved him right

[Unix]

One of the advantages of using the GET method is you can bookmark the URL and search engines will crawl your page and index it. With a post this cannot happen.

[VectraMan]

One of the advantages of using the GET method is you can bookmark the URL and search engines will crawl your page and index it. With a post this cannot happen.

What postcode does a search bot use?

[Bunk]

What postcode does a search bot use?

Whichever one is on the link that they crawl.

[fullyautomatix]

Whichever one is on the link that they crawl.

And in this instance that URL does not exist. I mean Google has intelligence but not so much that it can input post code and crawl a URL.

Anyway, POST makes sense if the data is quite huge since QS has a limit. Advantage of GET is that the URL can be directly loaded without the need to re post the data.