Re: [ShowCart] and GET vs. POST

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 14522
interpreted = N
texte = >To follow up on my problem with [ShowCart].... > >After seeing John's post about using GET for debugging (thanks John!), I >replaced POST with GET on my ShoppingCart and Invoice pages. Was curious >to see the resulting URL.... > >Turns out the URLs looked fine... > >*and* the error message I was seeing when using View:Page Source with >my browser (NN 4.0 Mac) went away!!! > >So why-oh-why should there be any difference between the two? >Geeze....And since the error message didn't seem to be affecting the >purchase, should I care that I'm seeing the error message with >View:Page Source???I think you found an error message bug, not a real bug ... :)Sincerely, Ken Grome WebDNA Solutions http://www.smithmicro.com/webdnasolutions/. Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. More! on [ShowCart] and GET vs. POST (Dale Stokdyk 1997)
  2. Re: [ShowCart] and GET vs. POST (John Hill 1997)
  3. Re: [ShowCart] and GET vs. POST (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  4. [ShowCart] and GET vs. POST (Dale Stokdyk 1997)
>To follow up on my problem with [ShowCart].... > >After seeing John's post about using GET for debugging (thanks John!), I >replaced POST with GET on my ShoppingCart and Invoice pages. Was curious >to see the resulting URL.... > >Turns out the URLs looked fine... > >*and* the error message I was seeing when using View:Page Source with >my browser (NN 4.0 Mac) went away!!! > >So why-oh-why should there be any difference between the two? >Geeze....And since the error message didn't seem to be affecting the >purchase, should I care that I'm seeing the error message with >View:Page Source???I think you found an error message bug, not a real bug ... :)Sincerely, Ken Grome WebDNA Solutions http://www.smithmicro.com/webdnasolutions/. Kenneth Grome

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