At 10:41 AM 5/4/2006, Jay Blanchard wrote:
People who use GET requests are lazy.
"Lazy"?? Jumpin jujubees yer spoilin' fer a fight, boy.
GET can be an extremely useful tool. As a user, with certain
applications, I appreciate being able to tweak the URL manually in
the browser address bar, include specific URLs in emails, bookmark
dynamic pages whose specific content can be requested on the
querystring, and so on. As a developer, I use GET in situations
where I want to expose the client-server dialog to the user for any
of the above reasons, or mark up hyperlinks to pages that depend on
querystrings for their content. Any application that takes input
from the querystring has to carefully validate it, but that's no
different when you take input from PUT.
Do you think it's "lazy" to include any input in the URL or only
after a question mark character? What about page & folder names? To
my view, the elegant php.net style of content lookup, e.g.
http://php.net/preg_match , is not significantly different from
http://example.com/?term=preg_match or
http://example.com/preg_match/search in terms of input
parsing. Whether you parse URL nodes or cycle through the $_GET
array is a trivial technical detail.
Now go on outside and breath some fresh air, you been workin on that
computer too long.
Paul
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