RE: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-21 Thread tedd
[snip] Okay, I'm sorry. Dude, you touched a soft spot. It's important, to me, that people respect standards. The wealth of information and communication possibilities that exist today is, in no small part, fueled by the adoption of international standards. [/snip] That's cool. As far as web

[PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-21 Thread Norbert Wenzel
Manuel Lemos wrote: For instance, if you use method=post because XHTML specification says everything should be in lower case, you will have problems with some browsers and e-mail programs that only accept POST in upper case and fallback to GET when they find something else. i would call that a

RE: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-21 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] [snip] Okay, I'm sorry. Dude, you touched a soft spot. It's important, to me, that people respect standards. The wealth of information and communication possibilities that exist today is, in no small part, fueled by the adoption of international standards. [/snip] That's cool. As far

RE: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-21 Thread tedd
I agree, but no one is laying standards on M$ -- they do whatever the hell they want -- and that's one of the reasons there are so many differences between browsers, especially theirs. I understand why IE6 has about 60 percent of the users, but FireFox is gaining fast at 25 percent last month

RE: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-21 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Yeah, and I still have the 3.5 inch disks of other browsers that preceded Netscape -- but, that's not the point. The point is that M$ will not bow down to w3c, or any other standard set, unless it's proved to them it's in their best interest to do so. As is it now, they still can rain

[PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-21 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 03/21/2006 03:14 PM Norbert Wenzel said the following: Manuel Lemos wrote: For instance, if you use method=post because XHTML specification says everything should be in lower case, you will have problems with some browsers and e-mail programs that only accept POST in upper case and

[PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 03/20/2006 06:52 PM René Fournier said the following: I have a script that periodically sends an email that includes form post to a script, which is meant to do something with the posted data. My problem is that apparently some PHP security measure is not permitting the

Re: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
Manuel Lemos wrote: Some people insist on making everything XHTML compliant just they assume that otherwise it would not be Web standards compliant. That is a silly claim that only leads to all sorts of problems. That assertion is 100% untrue. First of all, XHTML is an excellent idea.

RE: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Some people insist on making everything XHTML compliant just they assume that otherwise it would not be Web standards compliant. That is a silly claim that only leads to all sorts of problems. That assertion is 100% untrue. First of all, XHTML is an excellent idea. Having been based

Re: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
Jay Blanchard wrote: All of these, XML, HTML, XHTML are subsets of SGML. Your point being? Because my point is centered around the simple fact that XML is easier to parse than generic SGML. XML and SGML aren't fully compatible, if you really want to spot on the differences. XML is

RE: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Okay, I'm sorry. Dude, you touched a soft spot. It's important, to me, that people respect standards. The wealth of information and communication possibilities that exist today is, in no small part, fueled by the adoption of international standards. [/snip] That's cool. As far as web

Re: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread John Nichel
Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: snip Okay, I'm sorry. Dude, you touched a soft spot. It's important, to me, that people respect standards. The wealth of information and communication possibilities that exist today is, in no small part, fueled by the adoption of international standards.

Re: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Okay, I'm sorry. Dude, you touched a soft spot. It's important, to me, that people respect standards. The wealth of information and communication possibilities that exist today is, in no small part, fueled by the adoption of international standards. [/snip]

RE: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Jay didn't touch your 'soft spot' (I never knew that about you Jay). Jay was responding to your flame of another poster (Manuel). [/snip] True dat, but I have touched.um.er been in touch with my feminine side. I am comfortable with who I am, or something like that. -- PHP

Re: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 03/20/2006 07:16 PM Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) said the following: Some people insist on making everything XHTML compliant just they assume that otherwise it would not be Web standards compliant. That is a silly claim that only leads to all sorts of problems. That assertion is 100%

RE: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Sometimes I wish we did have mandatory standards. Punishable by hanging nonconforming implementations implementors' by their thumbs. :-) But then I close Internet Explorer, and I suddenly feel well again. [/snip] It would make life for web developers a lot easier. BTW [Amador] XML and

Re: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
Manuel Lemos wrote: That is not what the W3C validator thinks. Try entering the following HTML in the W3C markup validator page and see for yourself why people are using post in lowercase because they think being XHTML compliant is a good thing. The validator said: value of attribute

Re: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, March 20, 2006 4:16 pm, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: The original poster's problem may be related to the fact that, perhaps, he's checking for the value of a button in the POST variable, when it's a very well known fact that the browser only sends the value of the button if the user

Re: [PHP] Re: Accessing data posted from a different URL

2006-03-20 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 03/20/2006 07:52 PM Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) said the following: That is not what the W3C validator thinks. Try entering the following HTML in the W3C markup validator page and see for yourself why people are using post in lowercase because they think being XHTML compliant is a good