[Zope] Zope Requests - POST vs. GET

[Andreas Jung]

--On Montag, 15. Dezember 2003 14:36 Uhr +0100 Tino Wildenhain 
<tino at wildenhain.de> wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> Andreas Jung schrieb:
>> This a single REQUEST is either a POST or GET request there is no need
>> for this separation IMO. Everything's in the REQUEST.
>
> That's not entirely true. Sadly there is a design flaw in cgi.py
> which ignores GET variables still present when doing POST.
>
> The whole lib is a bit ugly so its not easy to fix it.
> And its even worser to fix if you want to achieve compatibility
> with current implementations.
>
> Should variables be merget? Get variables before POST
> or vice versa?

in the HTTP specs we can find: """ The POST
method is used to request that the origin server accept the
entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the
resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line"""

How shall we interpret that? Parameters passed as QUERYSTRING
in a POST request do override parameters passed in the body?

Anyway I don't  see why there is a need to mix both. For
clearity one should either pass the parameters as POST or GET.

-aj