Why does Amazon Web Services have a lengthy url for login page

Question

I am wondering why Amazon Web Services console login page has that lengthy url? Why not just POST the data without showing the lengthy url with lots of data in it. Is there any good reason to implement this way?

Answer 1

I think it's not a security question because if we can intercept http request we can read get or post request.

I think it's an implementation question. With get request you can :

• create cache mechanism.
• save configuration
• save configuration client side by adding url to your favorite

It's only supposition maybe there are another good reason but I don't think security reason.

For security HTTP vs HTTPS is more important than POST vs GET