Re: don't use POST for big GET [was: Dictionaries in HTML ] from Gavin Nicol on 1996-02-04 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 1996)

From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 17:23:07 -0500
To: connolly@beach.w3.org
Cc: dwm@shell.portal.com, html-wg@w3.org, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <199602042223.RAA04255@ebt-inc.ebt.com>

>I suggest HTTP be extended to include a GET-like method where
>large amounts of query data can be sent in the body of the request.

According to the syntax for HTTP, get can already do this. I have
been arguing that this should be supported by all servers for quite
some time now, primarily because I do not like overloading the
semantics of POST.

Received on Sunday, 4 February 1996 14:27:59 UTC