in reply to CGI Parsing information on URL Bar

I would suggest that you see the HTTP Specification in particular with reference to the difference between the GET and POST request methods.

/J\

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Re^2: CGI Parsing information on URL Bar
by Joost (Canon) on Mar 31, 2005 at 22:15 UTC
    And while you're reading that, note that using POST just to "hide" the data is an abuse of HTTP. POST should be used for requests that have side-effects: amongst other things that means that a GET request with a given URL should usually give the same response (within some reasonable time-limit), while a POST request doesn't have to. It also explains why conforming browsers should give a warning when you try to reload a page that was produced from a POST request.

    Of course. for logging in to a system, a POST request is appropriate.

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