- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 16:47:01 +0300
On May 13, 2005, at 06:28, Michael Gratton wrote: > Most web applications I have seen (certainly nearly every one written > in Java) do not differentiate between parameters provided by a GET or > a POST; you can do either and the application will work in the same > way. Of the various server-side frameworks available Java servlets are among the most cluefully designed when it comes to getting HTTP right. If a developer calls doPost from doGet, there is nothing the framework designer can do about it. I'm still -1 on changing the specs to accommodate people who have been ignoring RFC 2616. By the way, the main problem with the publicized case was that their non-idempotent GETs did not have query strings. Usually the people who don't respect the idempotency of GETs also have crufty URLs with query strings so that a robot can apply heuristics to avoid query strings. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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