Compare GET and POST Methods of HTML Form

Compare GET and POST Methods of HTML Form

• The main difference between GET and POST is how the form data is passing. 
• Both are used for passing form field values.
• All the values which is submitted by the GET method will be appended to the URL.
  Where as POST method send the data with out appending the URL(hidden)
• In GET Method we can bookmark the URLs where as in POST method its not possible.
• In GET Method there is a limit for passing the data from one page to another(ie 256 characters according to w3c standards)
  But in POST we can send large amount of data
• Compared to POST get is Faster
• POST is more secure than get method
• If you refresh the page , POST method shows an annoying alert box
• Some firewalls doesn't allow POST methods.
• All the informations which is passed by GET method will be stored in webserver (log file) but in POST we can not

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