[Web-SIG] Form field dictionaries

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Fri Oct 24 20:51:41 EDT 2003


> I'm a huge fan of being able to distinguish between that data from a 
> query string (GET data) and data that has been POSTed. I posted my 
> reasons for caring about this to the Quixote mailing list a few days 
> ago, but I'll repeat them here through the magic of copy and paste:
> [...list of reasons you want to know the HTTP command omitted...]

The way to differentiate them (if you care) is to look at the
"command" attribute of the request object, IMO.  That would tell you
whether you were looking at data from GET, or POST, or HEAD, or
whatever.  I see no reason to pass the data differently, though.
Parameters are parameters.

(Of course, you can use query data with POST as well as with GET.)

Bill



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