Sorry, Tom, sarcasm does not play well on the list and especially not when it's taken out of context. My original question was to find a way to eliminate the display of information in the browser's address window. Typically this comes from passing information with a URL either by having an actual hyperlink or through using a redirect and passing parameter with it. There are Javascript mechanisms which might work but they all require signed scripts--something my environment can't support. One could wrap everything in a unitary frame set and run full screen--possibly the right solution eventually but not for the moment. I'm still pondering this problem. Jamie has suggested that redirection is a bad idea and that I'd be better off using some other mechanism both for the transfer of control and to pass variables. You are suggesting much the same: that an idiom that explicitly constructs and passes a REQUEST object explicitly may be better than using the URL parameter mechanism may be a better approach. I'll try that out on a few use cases and see how it plays. We are currently beginning to re-engineer and scale-up our system so now's a good time to do so. On Fri, 9 May 2003, Passin, Tom wrote:

[Dennis Allison]

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How do you transfer information via post when using REQUEST['RESPONSE'].redirect?

How do you get Zope to use POST as its default rather than GET?

Hmm, methinks you do not have a clear idea of how these things work. The choice of POST vs GET is not up to Zope per se. It is up to the User Agent, which in practice means it is up to the design of the web page itself. There is no Zope "default".

If you want to redirect to a new page and pass some information to the redirected page while you do so, you would give the information to the page template via (typically) REQUEST variables (which you can set during Zope processing) - or other Zope variables - so that the DTML or ZPT that builds the redirected page can include the data into the page. Sometimes the data ends up populating visible or hidden fields in a form, sometimes you decide to apply it in other ways. At this level, neither GET nor POST is involved, since it would happen before the page is built and sent back to the browser.

If this is not helpful enough, then give us a few (simplified and clear) scenarios tha trouble you, and maybe we can help clarify and simplify.