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RE: When GET = POST?
From: Glyn Geoghegan <glyn.geoghegan () corsaire com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:07:16 -0000
Vincent Janelle wrote:
<snip>
The reason is that most browsers/webservers have a limit on the size of a get request. Most people weren't worried about sending credit card information over the net way back in the day :\
<offtopic> I'm not so sure - as a budding Junior Consultant back at UUNET in the day, my life was spent explaining to people the relative risks of using credit cards on-line vs. handing it to a shifty waiter in the local eatery... (Plus connecting IPX networks & cc:mail to the Internet & proving routers with ACLs weren't sufficient to protect the enterprise!) </offtopic> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the recipient(s) only. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender immediately and destroy the material whether stored on a computer or otherwise. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: Any views or opinions presented within this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Corsaire Limited, unless otherwise specifically stated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Corsaire Limited, 3 Tannery House, Tannery Lane, Send, Surrey, GU23 7EF Telephone: +44(0)1483-226000 Email:info () corsaire com
Current thread:
- RE: When GET = POST?, (continued)
- RE: When GET = POST? Tony Welsh (Nov 09)
- Re: When GET = POST? Adrian Wiesmann (Nov 10)
- Re: When GET = POST? Kevin Spett (Nov 11)
- Re: When GET = POST? Jason Childers (Nov 11)
- Re: When GET = POST? Charles Miller (Nov 11)
- Re: When GET = POST? Jeff Dafoe (Nov 11)
- Re: When GET = POST? Jason Healy (Nov 11)
- Re: When GET = POST? Kevin Spett (Nov 12)
- Re: When GET = POST? Daniel Hedrick (Nov 12)
- Re: When GET = POST? Jeff Dafoe (Nov 11)
- Re: When GET = POST? Steven M. Christey (Nov 11)
- RE: When GET = POST? Glyn Geoghegan (Nov 14)
- RE: When GET = POST? Glyn Geoghegan (Nov 14)
- RE: When GET = POST? Tony Welsh (Nov 09)