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Chapter 27. Networking Basics and Flash ... > Sending Variables with URLRequest
27.6. Sending Variables with URLRequest
Now, in addition to loading information from external sources, you can send information to external sources that will allow you to receive data based on what you sent. I'll go much more deeply into this in the next chapter, but let's look at the basics here.
GET and POST are two ways of sending information between web pages via the browser. The main difference between these two HTTP methods is that GET puts the variables in the URL, whereas POST adds them to the body of the HTTP request. Let's look at a GET request first:
