bruce, please don't cross-post unless you have some valid reason for it. On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, bruce wrote: [...] > however, if you examine the headers between the server/browser app, you can > more or less.. see what's being transfered back/forth... in this case, the > content/post data is available, and looks to be some ~6k of data...
Sure. > it was my understanding that combining this information with the URl, > """should""" be able to get to the targeted page.. assuming all things are > equal.. however.. this does not appear to be the case.. There's no "should" here. No standard (prescriptive or de-facto) says that URL query string parameters and POST data are interchangeable. In many cases, server code merely *happens* to work that way. > i've been able to successfully simulate what a post does with a number of > sites, by simply combining the URL with the requisite data and dropping the [...] Yup, no surprise there. Equally, no surprise that it *doesn't* work in other cases. John
