Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Phlip
Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 02:24 am

Chris Sonnack wrote:

>>> * What is the difference between an http GET and http POST?
>>
>> One's stuffed into the URL and the other is any of several cheap data
>> format vaguely related to either URL formatting, or to e-mail, MIME, etc.
>
> A fair number of our applicants get that much right.  I've been hoping to
> get one that knows a "theory-based" (for lack of a better term) 
> difference.
>
> That is, when it's *appropriate* to use GET or POST....

Holmes, I have experience both making GET messages crackproof, and encoding 
POST messages from scratch out of giant strings.

Now _hire_ me, even though I can't think of any fancy-pants "theory-based" 
difference between them, or I'l go all Robert Maas on you!

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  Phlip
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