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Re: forms question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Troth)
Mon Aug 22 13:22:19 1994
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 19:13:13 +0200
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From: Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>
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I can't express this strongly enough without using wording
that would alienate some people:
hidden fields are awkward at best
"overloaded paths" in the URL are bad
Recommend putting state information and other optional
parameters after a (yet to be implemented on some servers)
semi-colon ";" and before the question mark "?".
Here's a real-life example:
http://vm.rice.edu/local/problem,read?number=20186
(substitute semi-colon for the comma)
The token "read" is bit of state information passed from
one page to the next. The page that gives me this URL is a "list".
We also have a "post" operation. There's no reason why these
parameters can't be of the form statevar=somevalue. As long as they
fall *before* that blessed question mark, your clients will cope.
Using semi-colon or even comma sure beats the confusion of another slash.
I tried implementing this will hidden fields and everyone puked.
--
Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>, Rice University, Information Systems
