Hello, in this video, I am going to discuss the difference between GET and POST when it comes to sending data via form, so we use post in the simple HTML form video. If you don't have this code, I highly recommend that you go and check out that video. You know, go through that and then come back here. Okay to see mind. Nice, okay, so this post, and then there is get. So if I go back to the homepage, and I, you know, type something in here, I'm just talking 12345.
Here, I click Submit. And don't worry. So we've got the data. If you look at the URL, it's changed because we've got to a different page. That's not what I want to show you. But look at the end, nothing free changes to get now.
So the method is now get you don't change anything else in the form because this handles the rest of it. And I need to say this and then Watching this to get because you can't get a variable via post that has been set by get and vice versa. And now if we go back to the homepage and type in all 12345, you know, put a six at the end as well. As you can see, we've got the data book in the URL, it puts a question mark. So this indicates that you know, get data get variables have been sent via the URL username equals for hon and no subsequent get variable or separated by an ampersand and then it is password equals whatever the that is. So that's the main difference to get stored in the URL, which is usually limited to about I think 2000 characters.
Yeah, it depends on the browser as well for the limitation is roughly 2000 characters double can vary. So one day The URL, one line, the URL post is the preferred one, because they're not only the data hidden, which makes it a lot more secure, because you don't want to be sending user information like this does give me an example. But you wouldn't do this, you send the via post. So it's hidden, you can send as much data as you want, there is no actual, you know, size limit. So you might be thinking, why not just use post all the time, instead of get, the thing we've get is, this is a bookmark bubble URL. So based on let's say, what you transfer, you know, what is in the URL, the the get variable, that might display something different on the page, but you might just be left a public page, and you can bookmark this whereas you can't bookmark post data, you would have to resubmit that data.
That's the main difference. Apart from that nothing else that you really need to know. All you need to know is to get a get you do get on the school, get and dial on the school. Get To send it via get you do get. And for post, I will actually put both versions here. And I'll literally just comment it out.
So this is how you send it by post. And then to receive it via get, I mean via post postal service or do some first, you do something like this, all this code will be available, so feel free to check this out. But like I said nothing more to it than that as a user. And as quick reminder, get is great for bookmarking URLs and data that isn't you know, sensitive so you don't want to be sending user data does generic public data that should be okay, but remember, these are 2000 character limit in the URL. And that isn't just for your variable that for the entire URL. So the amount of input space you have to play with will vary Depending on how long your URLs is, and the the general format of your, you know, your pages, your folder structure as well.
And posts should be used for everything else if it can be. It should definitely use for you the data sensitive data and unlimited file size, you don't have a limit of how much data you can send. So that's a different thing, GET and POST. If you have any questions, feel free to pop me a message. And as usual, I look forward to seeing you in the next video.