2011/3/26 <richardcavell(a)mail.com>om>:
I can see that there are avantages to putting
parameters into POST
data. Are there any advantages to a bot putting parameters into the
URL?
The only advantage I can think of is caching. If you're repeating the
same request a number of times and want any caching proxies between
you and the server (e.g. Wikimedia's Squid servers) to cache the
result for you, you can put &smaxage=3600 (or any number of seconds)
in the URL. This only works for GET requests and only when the URLs
are exactly the same both times.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)