On May 13, 2005, at 06:28, Michael Gratton wrote:
Most web applications I have seen (certainly nearly every one written in Java) do not differentiate between parameters provided by a GET or a POST; you can do either and the application will work in the same way.
Of the various server-side frameworks available Java servlets are among the most cluefully designed when it comes to getting HTTP right. If a developer calls doPost from doGet, there is nothing the framework designer can do about it.
I'm still -1 on changing the specs to accommodate people who have been ignoring RFC 2616.
By the way, the main problem with the publicized case was that their non-idempotent GETs did not have query strings. Usually the people who don't respect the idempotency of GETs also have crufty URLs with query strings so that a robot can apply heuristics to avoid query strings.
-- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
