> a standard HTTP request is a GET request.

I guess I'm just missing some basic definition of terminology. Been
writing desktop systems for too long, 'spose.

> using firefox and one of a number of extensions (firebug springs to mind)
> you can actually view the request headers that are sent.

Firebug shows headers for the c3.php page are:

Response Headers:
Date    Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:48:43 GMT
Server  Apache/2.2.6 (Fedora)
X-Powered-By    PHP/5.1.6
Expires Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control   no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma  no-cache
Content-Length  51
Connection      close
Content-Type    text/html; charset=UTF-8

Request Headers:
Host    localhost
User-Agent      Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6)
Gecko/20070812 Remi/2.0.0.6-1.fc6.remi Firefox/2.0.0.6
Accept  
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset  ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive      300
Connection      keep-alive
Referer http://localhost/hf/c1.php
Cookie  PHPSESSID=spave8i7jc7m0cmmvcdaj3msh7

> >
> > (P.S. I'll get to the issue of rearchitecting this via require instead
> > of using header() redirects,cough, cough, Richard Lynch, cough, cough
> > :) in a future message. One step at a time...)
>
> yes - abusing redirects as described is wasteful. and certainly it's the
> first time I've ever heard the statement 'Never show pages in response to 
> POST'
> sounds like hubris too me.

I've seen the statement in a number of messages in the archives here
and in google searches. Probably a case of Read Once, Repeat Often. I
took it with a grain of salt. They are java guys over there, after
all. :)

OK, now onto ridding the world of these redirects()....
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