来自RFC 2616:

9.3获得 GET方法意味着检索任何信息(形式为 实体)由 要求通用。如果Request-URI引用 对于数据生成过程，它是 应返回的已生成数据 作为响应中的实体而不是 进程的源文本，除非 这个文本恰好是的输出 这个过程。

9.5 POST The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line. POST is designed to allow a uniform method to cover the following functions: Annotation of existing resources; Posting a message to a bulletin board, newsgroup, mailing list, or similar group of articles; Providing a block of data, such as the result of submitting a form, to a data-handling process; Extending a database through an append operation. The actual function performed by the POST method is determined by the server and is usually dependent on the Request-URI. The posted entity is subordinate to that URI in the same way that a file is subordinate to a directory containing it, a news article is subordinate to a newsgroup to which it is posted, or a record is subordinate to a database. The action performed by the POST method might not result in a resource that can be identified by a URI. In this case, either 200 (OK) or 204 (No Content) is the appropriate response status, depending on whether or not the response includes an entity that describes the result.

因为get是纯粹的url，它们可以被web浏览器缓存，并且可能更好地用于一致生成的图像之类的事情。(设置过期时间)

一个来自gravatar页面的例子:http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4c3be63a4c2f539b013787725dfce802?d=monsterid

GET可能会产生稍微更好的性能，一些web服务器在调用处理程序之前将POST内容写入临时文件。

另一件需要考虑的事情是尺寸限制。get的上限是URL的大小，标准是1024字节，不过浏览器可能支持更多。

传输更多的数据应该使用POST来获得更好的浏览器兼容性。

即使小于这个限制也是一个问题，正如另一个帖子所写的，URL中的任何内容都可能最终出现在浏览器UI的其他部分，比如历史记录。

没有什么是你本身做不到的。关键在于您不应该修改HTTP GET上的服务器状态。HTTP代理假设由于HTTP GET不修改状态，那么用户调用HTTP GET一次还是1000次没有区别。使用这些信息，他们认为返回第一个HTTP GET的缓存版本是安全的。如果你破坏了HTTP规范，你就有破坏HTTP客户端和代理的风险。不要这样做:)

来自RFC 2616:

9.3获得 GET方法意味着检索任何信息(形式为 实体)由 要求通用。如果Request-URI引用 对于数据生成过程，它是 应返回的已生成数据 作为响应中的实体而不是 进程的源文本，除非 这个文本恰好是的输出 这个过程。

9.5 POST The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line. POST is designed to allow a uniform method to cover the following functions: Annotation of existing resources; Posting a message to a bulletin board, newsgroup, mailing list, or similar group of articles; Providing a block of data, such as the result of submitting a form, to a data-handling process; Extending a database through an append operation. The actual function performed by the POST method is determined by the server and is usually dependent on the Request-URI. The posted entity is subordinate to that URI in the same way that a file is subordinate to a directory containing it, a news article is subordinate to a newsgroup to which it is posted, or a record is subordinate to a database. The action performed by the POST method might not result in a resource that can be identified by a URI. In this case, either 200 (OK) or 204 (No Content) is the appropriate response status, depending on whether or not the response includes an entity that describes the result.

在PHP中，POST数据限制通常由PHP .ini设置。GET受到服务器/浏览器设置的限制——通常在255字节左右。

当您希望URL反映页面的状态时，请使用GET。这对于查看动态生成的页面非常有用，比如这里看到的页面。POST应该在表单中用来提交数据，就像我点击“POST Your Answer”按钮一样。它还生成了一个更干净的URL，因为它没有在路径后生成参数字符串。