Get and Post?

[Super_saiyan]

Hey guys
in Flash, and even other script languages, there're the additional parameters GET and POST?

a) What do the exactly?
b) What's the difference?
c) When sould i use it? Examples?

[down2one]

a.) GET -> gets info
POST -> posts info

b.) the difference lies in their implentation (sorry, i dob't know the details)

c.) use GET to retrieve data from remote sources
example: i don't know
use POST to append data to remote destinations
example: u guessed it, i don't know how

did i help much?

[RealVedgie]

In asp and php pages, the get and the post parameters dont do that actually.

Get allows you to send some data via the address. Ex: index.asp?bla=true.

Post, on the other side, allows you to send some invisible data to the user. The address will only be index.asp and the data will be kept in secret. Perfect for passwords, etc.

For Flash, I dont know much about it...

[gSOLO_01]

GET sends info in the address bar (usually for simple form submissions, searches, simple queries); POST sends it in the pages header, invisible to the user (sending passwords, large amounts of data &c). Nothing to do with ASP, PHP or whatever. There is a limit on how much data you can send via a GET request where as POST has no such limit.