[Zope] POST to zope

[Paul Zwarts]

Hi Steve,

I understand this well enough, but I have seen in two different scenarios
that this fundamentally does not work.

A transaction system we built has a system that is beyond my understanding
and responsibility. The technicians assured me that they tried to POST data
to a form from their server to our zope. It for some reason didnt work.
(This is work previous to my time in the company)

In my own test with Shockwave, using a POST method, the form does not
process. Using a GET with a query string of course, DOES trigger zope
properly. But perhaps its my logic gating in the form?

Obsserve in ZOPE only:
Name :index_html

<dtml-if "REQUEST.has_key('submit')">
  do something
</dtml-if>

<form method=POST>
  <input type=Submit name=submit>
</form>


Easy enough, yes? Now take something non-zope and try to post the submit.
The 'do something' never occurs and nothing suggests that there was an
error. Simply a zero-byte response.

Does this explain my problem better?

Thanks for your help,
Paul Zwarts

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Spicklemire [mailto:steve@spvi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:30 AM
To: Paul Zwarts
Cc: Zope
Subject: Re: [Zope] POST to zope



Hi Paul,

	Hmm.. you have a form that uses 'method="POST"'? POST/GET are just
different ways of encoding variables that get sent with a REQUEST to
Zope. GET encodes the variables as part of the URL, POST sends them
after all the headers are finished. Zope handles the distinction by
parsing the variables (however they were sent) and stores them in the
REQUEST object, which can then be interrogated by your methods.

does that help?
-steve

Paul Zwarts wrote:
>
> Can someone suggest a document somewhere that outlines Zope mechanism for
> POST and GET? I'm trying to make POSTs to Zope from elsewhere without any
> ideas of how to go about it.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Zwarts
>
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