httpd: uri length

Sam Robb uclibc at oneparticularharbor.net
Sun Sep 4 20:59:31 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 17:12 +0200, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Good designed formulars uses the post method to send the data.
> 
> This is somewhat too simplistic: GET is intended to be used for
> requests that are omnipotent (don't change any state on the server),
> which, for instance, implies, that it is safe to cache the answer to a
> GET request.

I believe that the correct term is "idempotent".

I'd be quite... intrigued... by an *omnipotent* GET request :-)

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