# POST vs. GET issues

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/post-vs-get-issues/225943>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [May 16, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/post-vs-get-issues/225943 "2007-05-16T22:45:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![pbrollwitme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@pbrollwitme](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pbrollwitme)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/post-vs-get-issues/225943/1 "2007-05-16T22:45:37Z")

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Hi all,

I’m having a situation with GET and POST and the Back button in IE 6. I have an include on all of my pages that has a login form in it. So basically, if a session exists the login form turns into a div with your name and profile info. Otherwise, the login form appears. I was using POST for the form but then realized that no matter what page I was on, if I clicked the back button in my browser the page had expired and could not be displayed. I found out that this is a POST issue that can be resolved using GET. So I changed the form to GET. It solved the issue and worked great. However, the bigger issue is now GET puts the users password in the address bars query string. Obviously a big problem. Does anyone have some insight on how I can acheive both fixes?

Thanks,  
Mat