# Using Post and Get **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [August 28, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-post-and-get/29612 "2003-08-28T17:15:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grandsp5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@grandsp5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/grandsp5)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-post-and-get/29612/1 "2003-08-28T17:15:36Z")
Can someone explain the difference between passing variable out of flash using post as opposed to using get. I have a php script which I got off of Jubba’s tutorial in the BOK form (part 1) that only works if I use Get, not POST as his tutorial said and I would like to know the difference ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-post-and-get/29612/2 "2003-08-28T17:18:17Z")
GET means that the server ‘comes to get’ the variables, POST means that you send the variables to the server. [SIZE=1]I think …[/SIZE] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-post-and-get/29612/3 "2003-08-28T17:19:39Z")
so shouldnt they be completely interchangeable? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-post-and-get/29612/4 "2003-08-28T17:21:13Z")
Maybe this helps… [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/methods.html](http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/methods.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-post-and-get/29612/5 "2003-08-28T17:23:55Z")
thanks a bunch claudio…but what the heck is that guy saying? He lost me after the title ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-post-and-get/29612/6 "2003-08-28T17:25:17Z")
Lol, I was so wrong 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-post-and-get/29612/7 "2003-08-28T17:25:18Z")
welcome 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-post-and-get/29612/8 "2003-08-28T17:26:15Z")
lol… it’s not like that voetsjoeba… Basically, they’re two different ‘methods’ for sending data from one page to another. When you send variables using GET, they’re fed to the page as part of the URL: [http://w](http://w) **ww.kiru** [paforum.com/forums/showthread.php?\threadid=32912\ With get, you don’t actually see them, which is why POST is securer. The security of POST might or might not be wanted, since, let’s say, you want user to be able to bookmark this page, the variable \threadid\ needs to be part of the url, otherwise bookmarking it won’t return you to this very page… 🙂 [edit] or just follow claudio’s link 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-post-and-get/29612/9 "2003-08-28T17:28:27Z")
oh gotcha. so basically (for my very basic purposes), use get if I want it to appear in the url and be bookmarked, post for something I want to be a little more secure. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-post-and-get/29612/10 "2003-08-28T17:28:28Z")
Well I knew _that_, but I read somewhere in a magazine that … well what I said. Seemed to be wrong 🙂