in reply to OT: POST v GET bandwidth?

URI escaping used by GET request is quite expensive. POST request can can use different escaping mechanism and compress the data, so it should be smaller, if anything.

There is caching difference between GET and POST, but caching is probably not involved here.

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Re^2: OT: POST v GET bandwidth?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 08, 2008 at 18:29 UTC

    The form in question is about half way down this page, and it only takes 2 10-digit integer arguments. Not much scope for compression there.

    The stupid bit is that if you use the form on that page, which submits it using a POST request, it still requests "Please use POST instead of GET. I have limited bandwidth."... so I think perrin hit the nail on the head.

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