Re: GET/POST parameters question

thank you both

Grahame


On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:20 AM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:

> 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
>



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