Get Vs Post Performance. The main difference between GET and POST idempotence However the main difference between GET and POST requests is that GET requests are meant to be although not always are because this depends on the programmer who actually creates the form and what heshe decides will happen once the form is submitted idempotent. As Wikipedia puts it Idempotence is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science that can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application.
In Get data is send in the head part of the message where as in POST data is send in the body of the message. POST is not idempotent. Calling a POST does something.
Attempting to bookmark a POST will just result in a GET operation on the URL.
Aug 14 2009 GET vs POST Basics In between new additions to our vocabularies think idempotent sections 91 93. Use POST when you are creating a new thing. The main difference between GET and POST idempotence However the main difference between GET and POST requests is that GET requests are meant to be although not always are because this depends on the programmer who actually creates the form and what heshe decides will happen once the form is submitted idempotent. Attempting to bookmark a POST will just result in a GET operation on the URL.
