Thanks,
The site is very new, and they have no idea what is happening. I suspect
that the goal should be temporary, but they are unsure how to configure. it
is no danger, its a private membership structure, and I simply wish my
forum posts to show up correctly there.
Of course I am using a modern browser for me lynx smiles.
So you are saying if I simply choose get as I did before my post content
will carry forward?
Or is proceed best?
Karen
On Sun, 20 Oct 2013, David Woolley wrote:
The choices are proceed, show url, use get and council.
On prior occasions I I would just use proceed the p thinking it needed
me to confirm my wanting to go there.
however for the forum posts this would result in my sending empty content.
this last time, I used the g for get, and the content, remained or I
believe it did.
Can someone give me some clarification on what is going on so i can
insure my writing posts, and only once?
The HTTP standard requires that normal redirects should use the same method
as the original request. The intended semantics of POST are that it causes a
change in the state of the destination, e.g. the submission of article.
A lot of sites complete a posting by redirecting to a results page, however
this would normally be with a temporary redirect.
As I remember it, they used to rely on mis-implementations in browsers that
meant that the redirect was treated as a redirect to a GET (which is not
supposed to have any effect on the state of the server). As a result, a new
status code was added in HTTP/1.1 which specifically says redirect using the
GET method, regardless of that used for the original request.
Lynx is asking you whether you want the correct behaviour, which may result
in a re-submission, whether you want to see the URL, so that you can make an
informed decision, or whether you want the relatively safe approach of using
GET, which may result in nothing happening.
As I said, this normally applies for a temporary redirect. If the site is
using a permanent redirect it is probably buggy, as it should mean that it
gave out an incorrect URL, when it should have known the correct URL, or that
it should really have been using a temporary redirect (browsers are allowed,
even expected, to remember permanent redirects and apply them internally for
subsequent requests). As such, you really need to understand what it was
actually trying to do. I would hope that modern browsers would honour HTTP
and use POST, especially for 301.
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