- From: David - Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 13:48:09 -0700 (PDT)
- To: http working group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
On Thu, 18 May 1995, Ari Luotonen wrote: > I beieve Dan Connolly wrote (attribution was deleted): > > > > Bzzzt. GET requests are specified to be idempotent. No visible > > side-effects allowed. > > *sigh*... We both know this, but we both know that in practice it's > not true. The Web is full of such CGI programs. Worse then that, there are (or were recently) browsers which ignored the action=post on a form and presented it as GET to the cgi program. (I presume that you would accept that POST may have required sideeffects as well?) Dave Morris
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