[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst::Example::InstantCRUD RFC

[Alex Kavanagh]

At Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:49:37 -0800,
apv wrote:
> 
> Nice going.
> 
> On Friday, January 20, 2006, at 02:35  PM, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
> > I made the frist step towards
> > http://lists.rawmode.org/pipermail/catalyst/2006-January/004537.html
> > At least now I don't modify values with GET.
> 
> In regards to this (from Aristotle):
> 2. In response to a POST, handlers *never* return a page,
>     *always* a 303 redirect.
>     ...
>     (And please don’t use 302; in practice 302 works because
>     browsers have to accomodate that everyone does this wrong, but
>     303 is the correct status to use, and is supported just as
>     well.)
> 
> I'm currently doing this in my successful POST handlers:
>            my $status = $c->request->protocol eq 'HTTP/1.1' ?
>                303 : 302;

I might rewrite it the other way:

my $status = ($c->request->protocol eq 'HTTP/1.0') ? 302 : 303;

This way only 1.0 clients get 302 and everybody later 1.1 (and
futures?) would get 303 assuming forwards compatibility.  But maybe
that's a bad assumption.

--
Alex.