[Zope] GET vs. POST

[Jamie Heilman]

Max M wrote:
> Jamie Heilman wrote:
> >Dennis Allison wrote:
> >>How do you transfer information via post when using
> >>REQUEST['RESPONSE'].redirect?
> >>
> >>How do you get Zope to use POST as its default rather than GET?
> >>   
> >>
> >You don't.  Don't combine redirects and POST, its unreliable.
> >rule of thumb: Avoid redirects wherever you can.
> It sounds like bad advice to me. Redirects are correctly implemented in 
> probably any browser out there. I have never had practical problems 
> using redirects. Why should it be unreliable?

3 distinct statements really, but when I said "don't combine
redirect's and POST", what I ment was, don't respond with a redirect
to a query containing POST data, this has been problematic for ages:
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/post-redirect.html
Avoiding redirects in your web design means you don't run into stuff
like this.

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