Re: Post Method versus Get Method

2003-01-08 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 9:17 pm, Susan Aurand wrote: I know the POST Method the data is sent to STDIN, and GET method the data is attached to the URL and then submitted. When and why would you want to use the GET method versus the POST method. Is is because of firewalls? or what? I would

Re: Cgi Win xp Perl

2003-01-08 Thread Phill
I have XP Pro and had this problem but I changed my Server to Apache and it works fine now. (Before I had VQServer which was using the Sun JRE. which was interferring). I dont know if that helps. Phill. Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

Re: cgi session

2003-01-08 Thread Vitaliy Babiy
You can generate keep client's status (session) in URI or in cookies. In the case of URI it's quite simple: In the script login.cgi you just check if login correct and generate session string so link wil look like this http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/next.cgi?session=567885734957345 Also you save

Re: cgi session

2003-01-08 Thread Vitaliy Babiy
You can generate keep client's status (session) in URI or in cookies. In the case of URI it's quite simple: In the script login.cgi you just check if login correct and generate session string so link wil look like this http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/next.cgi?session=567885734957345 Also you save

Re: Post Method versus Get Method

2003-01-08 Thread drieux
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

Re: Post Method versus Get Method

2003-01-08 Thread wiggins
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

Re: cgi session

2003-01-08 Thread Will
Here is a tutorial (written for the CGI::Session module) with a section on how to do membership style sites. http://search.cpan.org/author/SHERZODR/CGI-Session-3.11/Session/CookBook.pm#MEMBERS_AREA The basic idea is to set a subroutine (included in the tutorial) at the beginning of each

Re: Post Method versus Get Method

2003-01-08 Thread drieux
On Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003, at 12:09 US/Pacific, Susan Aurand wrote: thanks. the simplest rule of thumb is start with GET until you have a good excuse for POST When you shift towards the 'all POST' approach, then you also want to be effectively using JavaScripting for the stuff that needs

Mozilla-izing was: Post Method versus Get Method

2003-01-08 Thread drieux
On Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003, at 10:19 US/Pacific, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] 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