Hi Shawn- There is a consensus in the web development community at large -- the HTTP Spec itself touches on it, and the W3C has released a few supporting statements as well.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html This is the HTTP 1.1 spec, section 9, which defines the difference between the various verbs, including GET and POST, in terms of idempotence. And this helps clarify: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet-20040321 For your use case, I would definitely use GET. The user may wish to bookmark the report, for example, or send it to a colleague. Searches and such should always use GET, unless there's a truly compelling reason not to. POST should only be used for things that change stuff on the server... a contact form, a form that creates something in a database, etc... Cheers! -Steve ==================================== Steven L Smith, Web Developer Department of Information Technology Services Nazareth College of Rochester 585-389-2085 | ssmit...@naz.edu | KC2YTC http://www.naz.edu/pub/~ssmith46 ==================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Milochik" <sh...@milochik.com> To: django-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 12:45:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: GET vs POST for read-only views Is there a consensus in the community that GET should be used for requests that don't write to the database? As a specific example, let's say there's a report form that allows a user to select a start and end date, and maybe some other search fields. What would you use for this, and why? I use POST for almost everything, but I admit it's mainly to avoid super-ugly URLs full of querystring content. Thanks, Shawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
