Yes you can imbed a POST in a link, using JavaScript. Don't.

A POST is no more secure than a GET. You're still passing everything in plain text. The only difference is that POST is allowed to have side effects (changing data on a machine) and GET is not (getting a webpage). What you need is https, using SSL. Merlyn's Web Techniques column should be useful (especially the one on cookies) as well as Ovid's CGI course is very thorough in his treatment of security.

And, as always, study prior art. Sourceforge has several similar projects, see what they are doing about security, and do more.

Good luck

Cheers,
Erik

In reply to Re: POST in anchor tags? by erikharrison
in thread POST in anchor tags? by Triscuit

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