Simon Willison’s Weblog

rather baffling finding: POST requests, made via the XMLHTTP object, send header and body data in separate tcp/ip packets [and therefore,] xmlhttp GET performs better when sending small amounts of data than an xmlhttp POST

— Iain Lamb

# 18th August 2009, 12:27 pm / ajax, get, http, iainlamb, performance, post, xmlhttprequest