[REBOL] GET vs. POST Re:(2)
From: webmaster:siliconspecies at: 5-Sep-2000 17:03
GET in Rebol is like you describe however, POST comes a string which you
have to parse which is really a hassle, as far as my experience recently
showed.
I had to parse everything and do all kinds of little things to get the
thing into a block with single values I could reference.
At 12:14 PM 9/5/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I cant imagine why it matters whether input is GET or POST... either way
>you want to pick the values out of a query string... in Perl, the CGI.pm
>module allows you to get at key-value pairs regardless of whether the data
>was sent via GET or POST, and I for one have never cared how it came as
>long as I got it.
>
>---
>
>On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 22:49:02
> webmaster wrote:
> >I have The Official Guide and within there is a small function which is
> >supposed to be able to detect whether GET or POST is used and then access
> >the correct system variable path to receive the info which was submitted by
> >the form.
> >
> >I don't think it works.
> >
> >Anyone else try this code and if so, does it work for you?
> >
> >My cgi works great with GET but seems to die towards the end of the app
> >process using GET because of the length of the string being submitted
> >becomes larger and larger as you proceed.
> >So I wanted to switch to POST.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jeff Rubin, CTO & Co-Founder
> >Audiopia
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> >
> >
>
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