True, but your garden-variety command-line utility might not be able to send a POST (like wget, but apparently curl can). Both of these concerns are valid and

True, but your garden-variety command-line utility might not be able to send a POST (like wget, but apparently curl can). Both of these concerns are valid and need to be taken together. GET can be run just like a normal URL and thus is more versatile, but as you probably understand, less secure.