------------------------------------------------ On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:02:20 -0800, drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003, at 01:21 US/Pacific, Gary Stainburn wrote: > [..] > > The only benefits of using GET that I can think of is that you can > > emulate a > > form by manually keying the data in the URL, and you can even create a > > bookmark containing the completed form details. I personally use this > > to > > bookmark specific queries to some of my databases tosave mehaving to > > complete > > the form every time I want a status update. > > > > The benefits of POST are tidier URLs, and not having the limits I > > mentioned > > above. > > -- > > Gary Stainburn > > > There is perchance the 'unintended' side effect here > that most folks forget > > http://xanana/Demo/?sysname=bob&config_host=libex > > is a 'unique' URL from > > http://xanana/Demo/ > > The former is seen with a GET the later is what > would be seen with a POST - where this can get > messy is when the browser has caching on - and > one's web-design has multiple queries that will > be routing through the same URL.... > > ciao > drieux > > --- > Good point, this for a *very* long time (and may still be) caused major headaches for the Mozilla development squad as it render most of their original implementation of caching completely unusable, as it related to things such as "View Source" and "Save As." Haven't been following that discussion anymore as I think they closed the original two bugs and opened new ones. What a nightmare.... http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
