Method for A? (fwd)
MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:51:40 -0700 (PDT)
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To: www-html@w3.org
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:51:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
Subject: Method for A? (fwd)
Once upon a time Mike Meyer shaped the electrons to say...
>The A tag has no such attribute, nor any other method to let the
>author select which of the two HTTP methods should be used. When an
I have never seen any need for POST on A. POST is only needed when
sending volumes of data to a server, which only results from FORM
submissions. I have never in 5 years of working on the web seen any
need for POST associated with A.
>GET semantics. These are also used to fetch objects that do not obey
>the semantics of the GET method, and adding a METHOD attribute where
>appropriate should probably be examined.
Please provide a concrete example. I see nothing in the current
specification that would require METHOD on A. And if you did it on A
remember there are other links - such as image maps.
What exactly do you need this for?
IMHO moot point - I don't think any major vendor would bother with it.
-MZ
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