Another +1 for removing it, it makes it way too easy to do something unfortunate, and it's behavior is only really intuitive if you come from PHP, otherwise my first question is, "Where does it look first!?!" every time I see it used.
Alex On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Shai Berger <s...@platonix.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 October 2013 15:52:56 John Paulett wrote: > > I'll chime in with a counterpoint. > > > > request.REQUEST can be helpful in limited cases when the server > application > > simply does not care whether it is receiving data via a GET query string > or > > x-www-form-urlencoded POST and a different clients can choose which form > > method is appropriate for its use case (e.g. possibly due to query > > string length > > restrictions <http://stackoverflow.com/a/812962/82872> in some > browsers). > > > > I won't claim this approach is ideal, but I have found it useful on > > occasion. Also, I acknowledge that a simple replacement could be > "REQUEST > > = request.POST or request.GET". If request.REQUEST ends up being > removed, > > I would not be upset, but I did want to state that I use it. > > > There is a fine point this seems to miss: The current REQUEST isn't > equivalent > to "request.POST or request.GET", but is a merge of the two; it supports a > login form posted to a url like https://example.com/login/?next=eg which > your > suggestion wouldn't deal with well. > > However, it does so by blurring the distinction between GET and POST > parameters, which like other people here, I find disturbing. > > Shai. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/201310161814.07961.shai%40platonix.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero GPG Key fingerprint: 125F 5C67 DFE9 4084 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAFRnB2VkKvt7%2BEm7jV71DAbXi8iMG4Bii3FGvuPXTGNKdzAwbg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
