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jonknee on Oct 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stripe Button (beta)

That is interesting, the form is a POST, must be Javascript doing the GET in its place. I wonder what the technical advantage of GET is in this case.

exogen on Oct 9, 2012 | [–]

The technical advantage is getting around the same-origin policy by using JSONP (which by its nature can only be used with GET requests for the script).

jtolj on Oct 9, 2012 | | [–]

Maybe has something to do with this: https://stripe.com/blog/stripejs-and-jsonp (they mention JSONP only supporting GET requests)?

jonknee on Oct 10, 2012 | | [–]

Yup. Duh.

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