Re: Newby neds help

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> 
>> Denis McMahon wrote:
>>> A POST request may indeed be more appropriate than a GET request, that is
>>> a decision for the developer to make. However, there is no rule that
>>> states "form data must only be transferred to the server using POST".
>>
>> No, of course there is no such rule.
> 
> There are, however, strong recommendations in the HTTP/1.1 Specification as 
> to when verbs SHOULD NOT be used.  (Questions about this can be part of the 
> ZCE PHP exam.)
> 
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-9.1>

<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.1> still seems more
appropriate nowadays.

>> It would not make much sense, for example, to submit data of a search form
>> via a POST request.
> 
> Yes, it would.  Apparently you are unaware of the URI length limit imposed 
> by browsers, especially Internet Explorer, and of search-by-resource.

Indeed, I had not considered search-by-resource (thanks for the
pointer), but rather a simple search box (such as used by the Google web
search).  I do not expect anybody to type in several hundrets of
characters in such a field, so the 2000 character limit of old IE should
be no problem even for UTF-8 character encoding.

A nice (side-)effect of using a GET request would be that the URI could
be easily shared and bookmarked.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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Newby neds help F. George McDuffee <gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates.us> - 2015-02-07 14:38 -0600
  Re: Newby neds help Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-02-07 16:31 -0500
  Re: Newby neds help "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-02-07 23:30 +0100
  Re: Newby neds help Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-02-07 22:36 +0000
  Re: Newby neds help Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-02-08 00:06 +0000
    Re: Newby neds help "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-02-08 01:29 +0100
      Re: Newby neds help Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-02-07 20:22 -0500
        Re: Newby neds help "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-02-08 02:33 +0100
          Re: Newby neds help Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-02-07 20:54 -0500
      Re: Newby neds help Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-02-08 13:27 +0000
        Re: Newby neds help "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-02-08 15:22 +0100
          Re: Newby neds help Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-08 21:58 +0100
            Re: Newby neds help "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-02-08 22:56 +0100
              Re: Newby neds help Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-08 23:36 +0100
                Re: Newby neds help "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-02-09 00:14 +0100
                Re: Newby neds help Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-09 00:42 +0100
                Re: Newby neds help "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-02-09 00:58 +0100
                Re: Newby neds help Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-09 00:30 +0100
                Re: Newby neds help "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-02-10 00:53 +0100
          Re: Newby neds help Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-02-08 21:46 +0000
            Re: Newby neds help "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-02-09 00:40 +0100
              Re: Newby neds help Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-02-09 19:34 +0000
                HTTP (was: Newby neds help) "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-02-10 02:04 +0100
        Re: Newby neds help F. George McDuffee <gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates.us> - 2015-02-08 20:06 -0600
          Re: Newby neds help Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2015-02-08 21:55 -0500
            Re: Newby neds help F. George McDuffee <gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates.us> - 2015-02-09 00:13 -0600
          Re: Newby neds help Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-02-09 09:46 +0000
          Re: Newby neds help "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-02-10 01:14 +0100
    Re: Newby needs help F. George McDuffee <gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates.us> - 2015-02-07 19:29 -0600
      Re: Newby needs help "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-02-08 02:40 +0100
      Re: Newby needs help Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-02-07 21:36 -0500
  Re: Newby neds help Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-02-07 21:33 -0500
  Re: Newby neds help Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-02-09 20:02 -0500

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