Re: using get or post method in submit elementMOVE TO ANOTHER E-MAIL LIST

Folks, this e-mail list is intended to report problems with VoiceXML and 
related speech application langauges to the attention of the W3C Voice 
Browser Working Group.  While your discussion is interesting, it is 
outside the intended scope of this e-mail list.  I'd appreciate your 
moving this discussion to another list.

Thanks,

Jim Larson
Chair, Voice Browser Working Group

Wyss, Felix wrote:

>In addition, I would consider it bad style, if not a violation of the semantics of HTTP, to modify state on the server with a GET method (such as updating a database).  
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>Felix
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Burke [mailto:david.burke@voxpilot.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 18:01
>To: www-voice@w3.org; Robert S. Willner
>Subject: Re: using get or post method in submit element
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>Hi Robert,
>
>The GET and POST methods are contained within the HTTP 1.1 specification
>(RFC2616). The VoiceXML 2.0 spec. in turn references the HTTP spec. and thus
>the two methods supported by <submit> are not vendor specific but standard.
>
>GET vs POST depends on what the application developer wants to do. GET sends
>data (submit's namelist) as part of the URL. POST on the other hand sends it
>as part of the body. Generally, POST is better for sending large amounts of
>data and also for sending user specific data (using GET usually results in a
>log entry in web servers for the requested URL and thus includes the data
>sent). GET might be simpler for some server side scripts (it is easier to
>debug at least) and also might be useful if the requested resource needs to
>be cached. Finally, there are two common encodings that POST uses and both
>of these must be supported by VoiceXML 2.0 conforming interpreters. These
>are 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' and 'multipart/form-data'. The
>former is typically used to send variables (as strings) and the later used
>to send binary data (such as a recording via the <record> tag).
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Dave
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert S. Willner" <rwillner@telcordia.com>
>To: <www-voice@w3.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:37 PM
>Subject: using get or post method in submit element
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>>Please provide information on the use of get versus post with the submit
>>element.
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>>What are the implications of using the get method versus the post method
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>in
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>>the submit element? Is this a vendor-specific implementation issue or is
>>there an expected behavior for each method?
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>>Thanks,
>>
>>Robert Willner
>>Telcordia Technologies
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