[Catalyst] How to detect if the current form request is a post?

[David Dorward]

kakimoto at tpg.com.au wrote:
> --> So, tell me, would you like to allow people to bookmark transaction
> ID numbers or attributes which are not permanent (ie will last until a
> transaction is done)?
>   
Why would a user try to bookmark such a page? It doesn't make sense.

What harm would it do if they did anyway? At worst, they should get an 
"Unrecognized transaction" error.

More usefully, a log of the transaction could be supplied.
> Fact is, guidelines are there for best practices but rules are meant to
> be bent when we encounter different problems/scenarios. Another factor
> is the business rules. If they business doesn't want its subscribers
> (for what ever business acumen/reason
Such as?
>  or perhaps to discount future
> maintenance of having to put in redirects when they decommission or
> rename certain URIs) to have a bookmark for them  to achieve certain
> things (ie. look at their electricity bills), then POST would be the
> better pick.
>   
Limiting the side effects of laziness and bad practices with other bad 
practices ... well, that's an interesting argument, I'll give you that.

>  Also, when POST is used , the URL on the url address bar of the browser
> remains clean without the extra params.
>   
URLs should be designed to be useful, not pretty (with the possible 
exception of those to be printed out on promotional materials - which 
the ones under discussion wouldn't be).

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David Dorward
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