<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Allen Tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atom@yahoo-inc.com">atom@yahoo-inc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">POST adds additional latency, and can cause strange warnings and a blank interstitial (the self submitting form). <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "> </span></span></font></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree with all your points, Allen. But can you explain why POST adds additional latency? It seems like just a word change over the wire. A browser and server shouldn't (it seems to me) take any longer to process it, except that it disables caching to some extent, but in this case that's desired.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hmmm.. I guess with that very interesting #? return_to URL hack so that the entire redirect is cached, allowing AJAX to work a bit faster, a POST there would defeat that optimization. Perhaps you're referring to that.</div>
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