Re: GET/POST parameters question

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 02:05:00PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> Presumably, an application will use parameters when
> and where desired. If not desired, a 404 error is a normal response.

Several years ago for an application I was working on, I explicitly
wanted to support both url-params and body for POST requests because
for me they are completely different and orthogonal beasts. But I
found that it doesn't cope well with a number of application frameworks
which are confused because (probably due to inheritance of the old days
of CGI), for them a parameter is a parameter, wherever it's found, so
these were completely mixed at various places in the chain. Thus I
gave up, a bit sadly, considering that I was prevented from doing it
just due to the risk of poor interoperability at some places and not
for any technical reason.

Cheers,
Willy