如果您不介意请求被重复(即它不会改变状态)，请使用GET。

如果操作确实改变了系统的状态，则使用POST。

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.

POST可以移动大数据，而GET不能。

但一般来说，这不是关于GET的缺点，而是一种惯例，如果你想让你的网站/web应用程序表现良好。

看看http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html

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。

重要的一点是，你通过GET提交的任何东西都会通过URL被暴露。其次，正如Ceejayoz所说，URL的字符数量是有限制的。

1.3 HTTP GET / POST选择快速检查

在以下情况下使用GET:

    The interaction is more like a question (i.e., it is a safe operation such as a query, read operation, or lookup).

在以下情况下使用POST:

    The interaction is more like an order, or
    The interaction changes the state of the resource in a way that the user would perceive (e.g., a subscription to a service), or
    The user be held accountable for the results of the interaction.

源。