GET data and POST data ....

[krazysang]

When you have typed a search query on google or on any other site for that matter and got the results .. have you looked at the url of the results page . That url contains your search query.
For example : if we have searched for "movies " on google .. we get the following url of the result page
http://www.google.co.in/search?q=movies ... =firefox-a
Please note "q=movies" in the above url .
But when you type in username or any other authentication information on a website .. the same is not true ... u don't see this information as a part url of the page you have logged into . This is logical because we do not want our authentication information to be viewed by anyone , and we want it to be sent discreetly across the web .

So how does this happen? How does the web know what information to keep secret and what to expose ?
The answer is simple .We tell the web how to handle this information.

While writing the code for the information...
When we want to show in the url , we tell the web to GET the data on the following way:
<form action ='result.html' method='GET'>Search:<input type='text' size='50'></form>

When we want to show in the url , we tell the web to POST the data on the following way:
<form action ='result.html' method='POST'>Username:<input type='text' size='25'></form>

[stars2710]

Hey krazysang ..

nice write up .. never realised this difference .. in the urls ...

[marcjone09]

smokin cool.... thank the kraze

[krazysang]

yeah , this was the simplest way of explaining this ... u can get a lot more details info online .. if u get sumthing more useful do post it here ...