[Mailman-Developers] Re: GET vs POST (was Re: subscription confirmations)

Dale Newfield Dale Newfield <Dale@Newfield.org>
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:23:36 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> If someone goes to /confirm, it brings up a page querying them for the
> confirmation number, which is some value that Mailman generates to
> link the user to the confirmation request.

If you want to remove one more step while still obeying the HTTP standard,
that submission could be via POST and short-cut the bringing up of the
next page on which they'd have to hit the "confirm" button...

-Dale