- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:38:03 -0400
- To: Jim Larson <jim@larson-tech.com>, "Wyss, Felix" <FelixW@inin.com>
- Cc: Dave Burke <david.burke@voxpilot.com>, www-voice@w3.org, "Robert S. Willner" <rwillner@telcordia.com>
At 02:57 PM 2002-08-15, Jim Larson wrote: I'd appreciate your moving this discussion to another list. a) Read TAG Finding: URIs, Addressability, and the use of HTTP GET http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/get7 b) Try <www-talk@w3.org> as the list if still not clear. Al >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). >> >>Felix >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Dave Burke >>[<mailto:david.burke@voxpilot.com>mailto:david.burke@voxpilot.com] >>Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 18:01 >>To: <mailto:www-voice@w3.org>www-voice@w3.org; Robert S. Willner >>Subject: Re: using get or post method in submit element >> >> >> >>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 t >>he 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" <mailto:rwillner@telcordia.com><rwillner@telcord >>ia.com> >>To: <mailto:www-voice@w3.org><www-voice@w3.org> >>Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:37 PM >>Subject: using get or post method in submit element >> >> >>> >>>Please provide information on the use of get versus post with the submit >>>element. >>> >>>What are the implications of using the get method versus the post method >> >>in >>> >>>the submit element? Is this a vendor-specific implementation issue or is >>>there an expected behavior for each method? >>> >>>Thanks, >>> >>>Robert Willner >>>Telcordia Technologies >> >>
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