Re: request for new forms submission consensus

Tony Sanders (sanders@bsdi.com)
Mon, 11 Oct 1993 16:59:06 -0500


> How about, then, <FORM ACTION="POST http://www.bsdi.com/hyplan/sanders.html">
I would just say that forms always get POST'ed, why would you ever need
some other method?

> > Content-Length: 13
> Looks good, except -- is Content-Length to be required? (And if so, why?)
Because you need to know where the end of the message is, the client can't
close the connection until it gets back a reply. You either need a
Content-Length: or you can use a message boundary by encoding a multipart:

POST /hyplan/sanders.html HTTP/1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="somestring"

--somestring
Content-type: application/x-www-textform

name=testing
--somestring--

--sanders