Thanks a lot for the excellent explanation. I tend to do my Ajax requests with post just to get the token in. Is there a reason not doing so, like savings in bandwidth or something like that? Might that be a gain Facebook is trying to achieve?
> Is there a reason not doing so, like savings in bandwidth or something
> like that?
GETs may perform slightly better, see http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#ajax_get