On 20.09.2010 18:56, Garrett Smith wrote:
No idea; I wouldn't expect it to work, even if some browser actually
supported something other than GET|POST. I've always used "get" or
"post" and that's what's stated in HTML4.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-method>
Might a large-ish form request, a standard form submission be a better
alternative to XHR?
Depends on the application.
One reason to use XHR is that you want to interact with an HTTP service
that hasn't been written for a web browser.
Whether services like this require complicated URI construction is a
separate issue. Some do. And I'm pretty sure that people *will* get URI
construction wrong due to delimiters, non-ASCII characters and so on.
Requests that don't have lot of parameters are often simple one-liners:
url = "/getShipping/?zip=" + zip + "&pid=" + pid;
That's exactly the kind of code that will fail once "pid" and "zip"
contain things you don't expecz.
What XHRs have complicated URL with a lot of query parameters?
What XHRs?
Best regards, Julian
