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Re: An alarming trend in METHOD=POST forms (an FYI)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Grant)
Tue Nov 8 23:28:40 1994

Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 04:52:31 +0100
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From: rgrant@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Ryan Grant)
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At 05:39 PM 11/7/94 +0100, Joel A Crisp wrote:
>Hi
>
>The biggest problem we have with this GET vs POST method is the 
>continuing bug in Mosaic for MS-Windows which trashes POSTed 
>information if the server is asking for authentication. Until this
>is fixed, we have to use GET. ;-(

This was recently fixed and will be in the next release.  Sorry about the
wait.

- Ryan Grant
  NCSA Mosaic for Windows development
  rgrant@ncsa.uiuc.edu


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