RE: When GET = POST?

[Glyn Geoghegan <glyn.geoghegan () corsaire com>]

Vincent Janelle wrote:
>
<snip>
> >  
> The reason is that most browsers/webservers have a limit on 
> the size of 
> a get request.  Most people weren't worried about sending credit card 
> information over the net way back in the day :\

<offtopic>
I'm not so sure - as a budding Junior Consultant back at UUNET in the day,
my life was spent explaining to people the relative risks of using credit
cards on-line vs. handing it to a shifty waiter in the local eatery... (Plus
connecting IPX networks & cc:mail to the Internet & proving routers with
ACLs weren't sufficient to protect the enterprise!)
</offtopic>


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