HTTPLib and POST problem with '?'
Jason Orendorff
jason at jorendorff.com
Sun Jan 13 11:57:03 EST 2002
> > h.putrequest("POST", "/cgi-bin/script.cgi?name=Paul")
>
> No; this violates the HTTP standards (the ? and after are
> only used for GET, to encode the FORM values; in POST, the
> form values are sent as the request's data instead of in
> the URL) [...]
Is this true? Admittedly I avoid using POST this way,
but is there really something in RFC 2616 that forbids it?
I wasn't able to find anything.
## Jason Orendorff http://www.jorendorff.com/
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