http://simonwillison.net/2009-08-18T12:27:31+00:00Simon Willison2009-08-18T12:27:31+00:002009-08-18T12:27:31+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Aug/18/performance/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/03/01/performance-research-part-3/#comment-59531"><p>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</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/03/01/performance-research-part-3/#comment-59531">Iain Lamb</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ajax">ajax</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/get">get</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http">http</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/iainlamb">iainlamb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/performance">performance</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/post">post</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xmlhttprequest">xmlhttprequest</a></p>