On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Arien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Waylan Limberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:59 PM, David Durham, Jr. >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Nice thing about GETs is that users aren't confronted with the dreaded >>> "Data was submitted with POST" confirmation, which is confusing to >>> most people and usually not tested. Basically you end up breaking the >>> back button and the reload button. >> >> Um, this is intentional and a good thing. If you read the spec, not >> only is the difference between GET and POST defined, but the way user >> agents (browsers) should treat them is defined as well. Breaking the >> back & reload buttons is a requirement of the spec to, among other >> reasons, avoid multiple posts by impatient (or double-clicking) users. >> Granted, browsers could provide more helpful messages, but we want >> that behavior for POSTing data. > > What specification requires this? > A number of them actually. To name a few:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.13 http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html A decent summary of the issues are found here: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/methods.html -- ---- Waylan Limberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
