- From: Bob Jernigan <jern@spaceaix.jhuapl.edu>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 14:09:15 -0500 (EST)
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: paulh@imc.org, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Larry Masinter wrote: > > The data sent with a POST usually corresponds to information that > results from an HTML form. I actually can't think of any other > application. Are there in fact any applications that POST anything > other than form data? I'd suggest: > > # The URI in a POST request identifies the resource that will handle > # the enclosed entity as data to be processed, e.g., values from a > # form that has been filled out. > This view seems to represent a Mosaic (incl derivatives)-centric view of clients on the Web. In our Intranet environment, the main client is MS-Excel with appropriate add-ins for http. It is true that the data is the resulting POST could have come from an HTML form but I don't think any of today's extant Mosaic derivatives could handle a form of the size that would be required for a typical POST action. But this does not detract from the proposed language above. MS-Excel and other clients may represent an extreme situation but the language covers the situation adequately. bob
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