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There are two additional security features POST has that GET does not:

1- POSTs cannot be forwarded

2- some browsers (webkit only I believe) require a client to interact with a domain before they can POST to it-- this means iframes cannot POST.

When it comes to XSRF, they are equally (in)secure.




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