Sunday, July 18, 2010

Forms In Pylon

Should you use a GET or POST in your form?

"As you can see, the request method (in the first line of both figures) is different in each. You’ll also see that the POST request has the e-mail address sent as extra content in the body rather than as part of the URL. It is possible to send very large amounts of data in the request body, but most browsers and servers can cope only with URLs that are less than 1,024 characters in length. This is why if you are using a file upload field, you should use the POST method, because the data is then sent in the body of the request."


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"If you are writing forms that contain password fields, you should usually use POST to prevent the password from being visible to anyone who might be looking at the user’s screen. If you are ever in any doubt as to which method to use in a particular circumstance, it is normally safer to use POST."


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"When writing form-based applications, you will occasionally find that users will press Refresh immediately after submitting a form. This has the effect of repeating whatever actions were performed the first time the form was submitted, but this might not always be the behavior your users expect.

If your form was submitted with a POST, most browsers will display a message to the user asking them whether they want to resubmit the data (see Figure 6-3). This will not happen with a GET, so POST is preferable to GET in those circumstances."

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