FLASH: Get Vs POST

[Grant Davies]

It is somewhat confusing...

Things to note


A form GET attaches the arguments that you are sending URL encoded at the

end of the URL


e.g. http://www.myserver.com/mycleverscript?MemberID=1234



This will call the script or ASP or servlet or whatever that it is aliased

to

http://www.myserver.com/mycleverscript


and pass it a parameter calld MemberID and tell it its value is 1234



ok, this is the usual thing.  The problem here, is a URL is restricted to

256 characters, so if you had a very large form or lots of data, you would

not be able to send all your parameters at once, this is restriction of

using a GET


now if you do a POST, the parameters are embeded into the html request that

is sent to the webserver, they are not appended to the URL.  This frees you

from the restriction of 256 characters that the GET imposes on you.  The

side effect is a POST is a little slower.


On the server, when you want to get those parameters, most API's make it

completely transparent how you get access to parameters wether it was sent

by a POST or a GET.  I'm not sure how you are using the variables, so I

don't know if you preffered method is transparent too.


Cheers

Grant


----- Original Message -----

From: "Eugene Liberman" <

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Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 10:48 AM

Subject: [flashpro] POST vs GET



> Guys:)

>

> Question: What the difference between the POST and the GET methods? If I

> understand it correctly, the POST method sends (posts) Flash variables to

> the server, and the GET method retrieves (gets) variables from a server

all

> using the URL variable/encoding scheme. Am I correct or am I waaaay off?

> Please let me know.

>

> Thanx,

> Eugene

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