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You can do that, but my understanding is you can't get the browser to attach cookies to your request in this way, while you can with forms. Do you agree?

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I haven't actually investigated that (and I'm not able to do so right now), so I couldn't tell you for sure.

If that's the case, then yes, the forms method would be 'better'.

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