Re: User confirmation and 307 redirects

On 19.08.2010 14:12, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:09:20 +0200, Julian Reschke
> <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>> On 19.08.2010 13:58, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>>> If you do not want to show UI or inform the user of something most users
>>> cannot comprehend and you do not want to do something "dangerous" it
>>> seems somewhat okayish to issue a GET instead.
>>
>> Yes, but in that case 307 is the wrong status code; use 303 instead.
>
> Except that the browser cannot control what status code the server
> gives. o_O

Well, the server knows what's supposed to happen.

If the server wants you to do a POST to a new URI, and you don't want to 
do the POST, then doing a GET instead simply is a bug. Incorrect. Wrong. 
Bad.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 19 August 2010 12:18:34 UTC