Re: [p1-messaging] 2.7.1. http URI scheme - [ "?" query ]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:50:11PM -0700, Ray Polk wrote:
> Possibly irrelevant (does this group care about common practices by user
> agents?) but....are there clients that have issues with passing query
> params to non GET verbs?

It's always possible that some might exist somewhere but it doesn't seem
to be the common case. At least even an old seamonkey 1 and opera 8 here
have no problem at all with this :

Test code :
  <html><body><form method="POST" action="http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo?bar=1">
  <input type="hidden" name="var1" value="val1"><input type="submit">
  </form></body></html>

Request sent :
  POST /foo?bar=1 HTTP/1.1
  Host: 127.1:8000
  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100301 SeaMonkey/1.1.19
  Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
  Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
  Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
  Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
  Keep-Alive: 300
  Connection: keep-alive
  Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  Content-Length: 9
  
  var1=val1

> If many/most do have such a limitation, I can see
> how people might try to avoid using query on other verbs.

I don't see any such reason. Right now it works at least for some clients,
so better not to suggest breaking something which works (and is already
used).

> (Neophyte question:  Is discussion of this sort seen as polluting this
> mailing list?  ...or is it cool?)

All discussions that are cool to some are pollution for other ones
(including this one). Better focus on draft-18 review and bring here
any possibly missed issue.

Thanks,
Willy

Received on Thursday, 19 January 2012 21:29:49 UTC