[whatwg] A thought: <a href="..." method="post">
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
Fri May 13 06:47:01 PDT 2005
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.
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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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