Re: Submitting input-form data to server

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Errors-To: sanders@bsdi.com
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To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Submitting input-form data to server 
In-Reply-To: Marc Andreessen's message of Sun, 05 Sep 93 16:38:51 CDT.
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Organization: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1993 17:52:55 -0500
From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
Status: RO

> "Tony Johnson (415) 926 2278" writes:
> > Marc writes:
> > >Pei Y. Wei writes:
> > >> * What syntax do we choose for marking up a property list? SGML or MIME?
> > 
> > Since HTTP/1.0 would support new methods in addition to GET, a
> > reasonable possibility seemed the addition of a new method (say
> > SUBMITFORM) for submitting completed forms. Maybe the reply method
> > should be something that can be specified ACTION modifier of the
> > <FORM> tag, with the possibilities being
> > 
> > mailto:<e-mail address>     Form sent as e-mail to specified recipient
> > http:<address>              Indicates to return form data as a query string
> > submitform:<address>        Indicates to submit the form using the SUBMITFORM
> >                             method.

Why not just use POST?

--sanders