I am certain the answer will be 'NO', but I wanted to ask anyway just
incase I have missed something.
Everyone knows that one pass data to a page in an anchor tag by using
the GET Method:
<a href="http://www.aaa.com/randompage.php? name=data">
What I am wondering is if there was a way to do the same thing, but use
the POST Method instead...?
My purpose in doing so is to keep the URLs the user sees clean by not
putting anything in them that they do not need to see.
This has nothing to do with security concerns as I already know there
would be ways to obtain the data being passed.
If the answer is indeed no, then what methods do people use to pass data
when there is a desire to keep the URLs clean? Cookies? Something else? 7 29898
Eric wrote: <a href="http://www.aaa.com/randompage.php? name=data">
What I am wondering is if there was a way to do the same thing, but use the POST Method instead...?
My purpose in doing so is to keep the URLs the user sees clean by not putting anything in them that they do not need to see.
No, but there are some a couple of things I would do to make your URL
cleaner.
First of all, I would get rid of the ".php" extension. It's really an
implementation detail of how your Web site is built, and looks pretty
ugly to my tastes. Most Web servers have options that would let you use
/randompage instead of /randompage.php if configured properly.
Also, if the data you're passing is really something like a name or ID,
why not make it part of the path instead of putting it in the query
string? PHP puts extra path components in the variable
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] for your application to use.
So in the end, your URL would look like: http://example.com/randompage/data
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Eric wrote: Everyone knows that one pass data to a page in an anchor tag by using the GET Method:
<a href="http://www.aaa.com/randompage.php? name=data">
Well, some of us know there's PATH_INFO in addition to
QUERY_STRING
What I am wondering is if there was a way to do the same thing, but use the POST Method instead...?
Are you familiar with the design aims of POST requests, vis a vis
non-idempotent requests, result cacheing, and so forth? If not, then
I'd suggest taking a step back and reviewing that topic, for some
general background.
Browsers are increasingly suppying users with protection against
accidentally re-POSTing a request, and it's a pain in the proverbials
when a significant number of browser moves - in situations where the
user feels the requests should have been idempotent - result
unnecessarily in a browser alert popping up to warn them that they
are risking re-submitting their POST request again.
So I'd suggest that you'd do better to fall into line - as far as
possible - with the general plan, rather than spotting some side issue
and letting it dominate the choice of GET versus POST.
My purpose in doing so is to keep the URLs the user sees clean by not putting anything in them that they do not need to see.
As another poster commented, you've already *put* something in there
that the user doesn't need to see, namely the .php
Surely -they- are providing the input for this request? So it's not
as if there's anything to hide. And maybe they'd like to bookmark the
URL, which isn't possible with a POST request (sure, you can bookmark
the /page/ which has the POST, but they still have to access that
page, feed in the data, and submit it).
This has nothing to do with security concerns as I already know there would be ways to obtain the data being passed.
right
If the answer is indeed no, then what methods do people use to pass data when there is a desire to keep the URLs clean? Cookies?
It's a possible mechanism, certainly. But some folks get annoyed by
the hail of cookies that get showered on them by some web sites, and
they finally lose patience and block the things altogether (sure, you
and I know there are more finely-divided ways of controlling them, but
users have the last word anyway). So it's best if you keep some kind
of fallback mechanism that you can use if that happens. There are
certainly some sites which use cookies for maintaining state if they
find that the user allows them, but if they can't, then you see a
random-looking string appearing in the URL instead, for the same
purpose.
(Though I did throw one site into complete confusion when one of its
advertising banners tried to hurl cookies at me, and I turned cookies
off in annoyance - which also disabled the session cookie that the
site itself had previously been using. Their server went into orbit,
redirecting to the same URL over and over until my browser called a
halt to it.)
Alan J. Flavell <fl*****@ph.gla .ac.uk> wrote: Are you familiar with the design aims of POST requests, vis a vis non-idempotent requests, result cacheing, and so forth? If not, then I'd suggest taking a step back and reviewing that topic, for some general background.
Can you provide some references?
Leif K-Brooks <eu*****@ecritt ers.biz> wrote: Eric wrote: <a href="http://www.aaa.com/randompage.php? name=data">
What I am wondering is if there was a way to do the same thing, but use the POST Method instead...?
My purpose in doing so is to keep the URLs the user sees clean by not putting anything in them that they do not need to see. No, but there are some a couple of things I would do to make your URL cleaner.
First of all, I would get rid of the ".php" extension. It's really an implementation detail of how your Web site is built, and looks pretty ugly to my tastes.
Interesting. I had not considered that before.
Most Web servers have options that would let you use /randompage instead of /randompage.php if configured properly.
Also, if the data you're passing is really something like a name or ID, why not make it part of the path instead of putting it in the query string? PHP puts extra path components in the variable $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] for your application to use.
So in the end, your URL would look like:
http://example.com/randompage/data
It could be something like a name or ID, but it could also be just about
any other random piece of data one might see being passed via the GET
Method and, perhaps, multiple pieces of data.
Also, can you provide a reference to a tutorial on how to make use of
the PATH_INFO technique?
Alan J. Flavell <fl*****@ph.gla .ac.uk> wrote: If the answer is indeed no, then what methods do people use to pass data when there is a desire to keep the URLs clean? Cookies?
It's a possible mechanism, certainly.
So, what technique would you suggest or use in cases where it would make
sense to keep the URL looking clean?
Or, would you argue that no such case exists?
Eric wrote: Leif K-Brooks <eu*****@ecritt ers.biz> wrote:
Eric wrote:
<a href="http://www.aaa.com/randompage.php? name=data">
What I am wondering is if there was a way to do the same thing, but use the POST Method instead...?
My purpose in doing so is to keep the URLs the user sees clean by not putting anything in them that they do not need to see.
No, but there are some a couple of things I would do to make your URL cleaner.
First of all, I would get rid of the ".php" extension. It's really an implementatio n detail of how your Web site is built, and looks pretty ugly to my tastes.
Interesting. I had not considered that before.
Most Web servers have options that would let you use /randompage instead of /randompage.php if configured properly.
Also, if the data you're passing is really something like a name or ID, why not make it part of the path instead of putting it in the query string? PHP puts extra path components in the variable $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] for your application to use.
So in the end, your URL would look like:
http://example.com/randompage/data
It could be something like a name or ID, but it could also be just about any other random piece of data one might see being passed via the GET Method and, perhaps, multiple pieces of data.
Also, can you provide a reference to a tutorial on how to make use of the PATH_INFO technique?
Assuming from the above you are using PHP, here is a basic tutorial
(with an odd URL considering its purpose) http://agachi.name/weblog/archives/2...endly-urls.htm
but this matter is better discussed on c.l.php but some quick comments
for consideration.
Exposing the string query real values in an URL can be fraught. They can
be altered maliciously in transmission. Nobody can prevent this but
contamination can be detected and the request rejected; only valid
values (or substitutes) being actioned. Google then c.l.php
Another reason to rewrite URLs is to obscurate the directory structure,
again better discussed elsewhere.
Another reason is to overcome search engines problems with the "=" in
the query string.
And the list goes on
Louise
boclair <bo*****@boclai r.com> wrote: Assuming from the above you are using PHP, here is a basic tutorial (with an odd URL considering its purpose) http://agachi.name/weblog/archives/2...mic-urls-into- friendly-urls.htm
Thanks for the reference. It looks quite useful and I shall have to
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