On 1/1/06, Robin Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/31/05, Kevin Dangoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nevow went through this, too. I don't remember what the arguments > > against are, but I do see how it's causing grief in this particular > > instance. > > My memory from the Django discussions is that the trailing slash was > added via a redirect, which messed up POSTs because some browsers will > refuse to redirect a POST -- or else they'll redirect it, but as a GET > (dumping all the POSTed data on the floor). I forget which.
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/post-redirect.html seems to have a pretty good roundup of what happens with POST redirects. -- Robin Munn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key 0xD6497014
