Re: form data & GET vs POST

somebody wrote: 

 > | i've been pondering this question for quite some
| > time as well. i think its  being miss interpreted.
|
|

I agree, and I think the question was simpler than
some  people may have thought. The answer goes back to
the definitions of the GET and POST methods. Somebody
correct me if I'm wrong:

With GET the data is read from $ENV{QUERY_STRING}
whereas with POST its read from STDIN. With GET you
can  call your script from a url that optionally has
the url-encoded input parameters appended to the
script's url. That means yes, you can call a script
without clicking a form's submit button but rather by
clicking a hypertext link pointing to the script, but
when you do that you're using GET, not POST.

Now I have a question:  what, if any, are the
circumstances under which GET is faster than POST? I
think I remember reading something somewhere that
implied that GET was faster than POST but I don't
remember where.

David Mintz
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