How Get is better than Post in Basic Authentication apache http client (Java Programming)

Question

I have heard that Post is most preferred while reaching a link which has password /sensitive information.

Q1.I know that Post is better than Put for Name-value pair parameters as ,the Get exposes it in URL and Post doesn't. But if we are talking about authentication ,How does it matter what method i use as i set the Credentials to the HttpClient not to the HttpGet or HttpPost.So credentials are not getting exposed anyway .The encapsulation of Name-value pairs is benefited by using POST.

CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();

credsProvider.setCredentials(
    new AuthScope(target.getHostName(), target.getPort()),
    new UsernamePasswordCredentials("user", "passwd"));
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
    .setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider)
    .build();

Q2. Again i can set the credentials as header to httppost as well to httpget like this..

String encoding = new BASE64Encoder().encode("user:passwd".getBytes());
httpGet.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding);
httpPost.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding);

Where does the post method takes precedence over get method?

Answer 1

我认为无论谁说post都比使用密码更好，这意味着密码将成为get请求中url的一部分，这显然是不好的。