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| Steve O'Hara-Smith 2005-08-16, 5:05 pm |
| On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:30:45 -0500
Chris Sonnack <Chris@Sonnack.com> wrote:
> A fair number of our applicants get that much right. I've been hoping to
> get one that knows a "theory-based" (for lack of a better term) difference.
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> That is, when it's *appropriate* to use GET or POST....
What you mean like there's a limit on URL length but you can POST
as much as you like ?
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| Chris Sonnack 2005-08-17, 10:01 pm |
| Steve O'Hara-Smith writes:
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> Hmm, so pages with hit counters should only be POSTed to ?
Absolutely! Hit counters are an abomination, anyway.
(Yeah, I'm kidding.)
((Mostly.))
> The w3c docs stopped talking about idempotent a long time ago,
> nowadays they talk about safe and unsafe requests and GET only
> being used when the action has no significance beyond retrieval.
Sure, and HTML/http *has* evolved far beyond its daddy's design.
The thing is, anyone who DID mention the idempotent aspect would,
I assume, be very likely to be very conversant.
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