Finally, an important consideration when using GET for AJAX requests is that some browsers - IE in particular - will cache the results of a GET request. So if you, for example, poll using the same GET request you will always get back the same results, even if the data you are querying is being updated server-side. The get keyword will bind an object property to a function.

Understanding the Context

When this property is looked up now the getter function is called. The return value of the getter function then determines which property is returned. Non-data descriptors, instance and class methods, get their implicit first arguments (usually named self and cls, respectively) from their non-data descriptor method, __get__ - and this is how static methods know not to have an implicit first argument. Is it possible to pass parameters with an HTTP get request?

Key Insights

If so, how should I then do it? I have found an HTTP post requst (link). In that example the string postData is sent to a webserver. I wo...