- From: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@appliedtheory.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 09:16:18 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "David W. Morris" <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Cc: advax@triumf.ca, ruby@name.net, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
In a previous episode David W. Morris said... :: On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Andrew Daviel wrote: :: :: > :: > I think the convention is to use POST for submitting information and GET :: > for queries (like search engines). POST results may not be cached; so [...] :: :: This is another example of a broken relationship between the history :: list and caching. I don't know if your example is a POST but there is :: a possiblity that what you are seeing from the server has an :: exception HTTP status (not 200, etc.) which the browsers refuse :: to leave alone in the history list but insist in resubmitting each :: time. David is correct here of course.. but this does bring the safe-post/get-w-body/safe-uahint questions back to the table. what's the status of draft-ietf-http-uahint-00.txt with respect to 2068? -P
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