Is either GET or POST more secure than the other?

Question

When comparing an HTTP GET to an HTTP POST, what are the differences from a security perspective? Is one of the choices inherently more secure than the other? If so, why?

Answer 1

My usual methodology for choosing is something like:

• GET for items that will be retrieved later by URL
  • E.g. Search should be GET so you can do search.php?s=XXX later on
• POST for items that will be sent
  • This is relatively invisible comapred to GET and harder to send, but data can still be sent via cURL.