[whatwg] A thought: <a href="..." method="post">

[James Graham]

Kornel Lesinski wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2005 11:28:25 +0100, Mark Wubben <markwubben at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>> An example:
>>
>>     <a href="/delete/$id/confirm" action="/delete/$id"  
>> method="post">delete</a>
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> 
> That it doesn't look like data to send using POST method.
> I'm afraid that in most cases it will be used as:
> 
> <a href="#" action="/delete/$id" method="post">delete</a>
> 
> So there must be something that requires authors to use it properly...
> 

Wouldn't it work if a single URL in the the href attribute was used for 
both request types? i.e. simply
<a href="/delete/$id" method="post">delete</a>
The serverside application would be expected to deal with GET requests 
on the URI in a sane way e.g. returning a confirmation page with a 
POSTable form on it - this would account for legacy clients and allow 
tools like GWA to work.