- From: Jim Seidman <jim@spyglass.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 95 17:47:59 -0600
- To: Jeffrey Perry <perry@openmarket.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Jeffrey Perry writes:
>What appears to happen when a POST is redirected is the client attempts a
>GET at the new URL so that the user can fill-in the form again (it may have
>changed when it moved)
There are several pages on the Web ("The Revolving Door" comes to mind)
which, on the basis of form input, redirect you to one of a number of
different pages. These pages then need to be retrieved using GET. This
usage appears to be much more common than a redirect where the client is
supposed to POST again on the target system.
At a very early stage of development, Enhanced Mosaic would actually do
another POST after a redirect. In every case that this happened, it
generated incorrect results (like an "Action not allowed" response). I
think that switching to GET after a redirect is current practice for most
browsers.
--
Jim Seidman, Senior Software Engineer, Spyglass Inc.
Received on Thursday, 23 March 1995 15:52:49 UTC