[REBOL] Re: POST
From: andreas:bolka:gmx at: 28-Jun-2003 19:13
Saturday, June 28, 2003, 12:11:50 AM, Carl wrote:
> 1. GGI CONTENT-LENGTH field is not used because we have found that
> field is not always supplied or accurate on all web servers (at
> least that's been our experience - we know one site that modifies
> web packets and changes their lengths!).
hehe :) be strict in what you send and liberal in what you accept.
just for the sake of completeness: by using the /safe refinement of my
simple 'read-post-data script Tim Johnson posted earlier, you can
easily accomodate for other people's faults in this regard.
> 2. We switch on POST and GET to allow a third case: NONE. This is
> very handy for local debugging
yes it is indeed. but as a sidenote, it is perfectly legal to have
both, a query string and post data (thru e.g. a POST to
/my/script.cgi?n1=v1
).
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Best regards,
Andreas mailto:[andreas--bolka--gmx--net]
