Is using the “POST” method for submitting forms more private than “GET”?
If you are concerned about your queries showing up in server logs, or those of Web proxies along the way, this is true. Queries submitted with POST usually don’t appear in logs, while GET queries do. In other respects, however, there’s no substantial difference in security between the two methods. It is just as easy to intercept unencrypted GET queries as POST queries. Furthermore, unlike some early implementations of HTTP encryption, the current generation of data encrypting server/browser combinations do just as good a job encrypting GET requests as they do for POST requests.
