Which method sends your answer

Everything on the web is one request and responseEvery web interaction is a request from the browser and a single response from the server.: the browser sends a method, a path, headers, and optionally a body; the server sends back a status code and a body. Nothing else is going on underneath. The method declares intent, and browsers and caches act on that declaration. GET means "retrieve something, change nothing": its data rides in the URL, and it may be cached, bookmarked, prefetched, or replayed when someone hits the back button. POST means "here is data that changes something": the data rides in the request body and is not cached. Choosing wrongly is not a style error: a GET that mutates state will eventually be triggered by a crawler that was only trying to look.