What changed in order for it to not automatically let us see? In previous versions it seems to me that I was able to view without having to POST agian.
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:28 PM, John J Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > On Sep 3, 1:40 pm, Wes Gamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John, > > > > Thanks for the quick response. > > > > John J Barton wrote: > > >> I've read a very long thread that goes into all this detail about > > >> pulling responses from cache and what have you. > > > > >> I have very basic questions around this: > > > > >> 1) Why is a double POST required in the first place, at the most basic > > >> level? > > > > > To show you the response to a POST. We have no other way to obtain > > > the response. > > > > Not trying to be dense, but why not? I read 9.5 of RFC 2616, but I > > haven't gotten any insight into why the response can't be obtained. > > Sorry, the RFC was maybe an answer to a question you were not asking. > The RFC just says POST maybe cache in some cases. > > The response can be obtained. It can be obtained by requesting it > from the server using the same protocol as the page. Which is what we > do. Which causes a second POST because the page already did one. > > The point is that the response obtained by the page is not available > to Firebug unless it happens to be cached. But it might not be cached > for lots of reasons. So in all of those cases we don't have a response > to show you. But you want it. So we go and get another copy from the > server to show you. Then you are unhappy because we double POSTed to > get it. Either way we lose. > > > > > > Wes > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
