Re: GET/POST parameters question

why is it useful?

grahame


On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Philipp Junghannß <teamhydro55555@gmail.com
> wrote:

> From my experience combining them can be pretty useful and I dont really
> see any reason it shouldnt be allowed, but one important thing is that you
> make sure that the server properly seperates any parameters you get by
> their origin (post, get, cookies, anything else) or otherwise you may land
> in some serious chaos (while on an API I doubt you would have users end in
> that by any malicious means, if one on accident chooses a name for a
> varable for POST that already exists in GET and you need both at the same
> time and they arent seperated it wont be fun.
>
> In other words do not use $_REQUEST of PHP or any equivalent in any given
> language, but instead target post, get etc parameters specifically and you
> are fine.
>
> Regards.
>
> Am Di., 12. Juni 2018 um 00:56 Uhr schrieb Grahame Grieve <
> grahame@healthintersections.com.au>:
>
>> thank you both
>>
>> Grahame
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:20 AM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 02:05:00PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>>> > Presumably, an application will use parameters when
>>> > and where desired. If not desired, a 404 error is a normal response.
>>>
>>> Several years ago for an application I was working on, I explicitly
>>> wanted to support both url-params and body for POST requests because
>>> for me they are completely different and orthogonal beasts. But I
>>> found that it doesn't cope well with a number of application frameworks
>>> which are confused because (probably due to inheritance of the old days
>>> of CGI), for them a parameter is a parameter, wherever it's found, so
>>> these were completely mixed at various places in the chain. Thus I
>>> gave up, a bit sadly, considering that I was prevented from doing it
>>> just due to the risk of poor interoperability at some places and not
>>> for any technical reason.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Willy
>>>
>>
>>
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