Re: Mixing GET and POST Methods

[Loyd Goodbar <lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can mix GET and POST on the same page, but not on the same *request*. You
may either use GET *or* POST on a single request.

You can have a single page with:
<image>action=myprogram method=get data=hello
<form>action=myprogram method=post data=hi
<a href>action=myprogram method=get data=howdy
<button>action=myprogram method=post data=heythere

You cannot have a request like:
action=myprogram method=post data=hello method=get data2=hi

If you had a page with:
method = get: value = 1
method = post: value = 3
cookie: value = 5

Which would your RPG program choose? Would you choose the same way all the
time? Programs (such as CGIDEV2 and PHP in *nix) that can handle these methods
use either the first method specified or transparently "pick one" first, and
use it. You cannot know which that CGIDEV2 would pick without looking at the
source. You can configure PHP to (for example) use cookies first, then post,
then get. But you still must pick one and stick with it for that request.

Please note I am saying "request", not "page".

You can have a page that has distinct GET requests and POST requests to the
same program (see above), if you're set up to handle that. But you cannot have
a single request that uses both.

Loyd

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:54:14 -0400, "Christopher A. Libby"
<clibby@mainepublicservice.com> wrote:

>As a side note, I tried two tests.  I first changed the form method to GET
>and included a hidden field (func) in the form.  The program worked as
>expected.  Second, with the new form I changed the method back to POST.  The
>program again worked as expected.  Can I just not mix GET and POST in the
>same web page?
>
>-Chris

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