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

[kakimoto at tpg.com.au]

Interesting. I will give it some more thought. Thanks :)


Quoting kevin montuori <montuori at gmail.com>:

> >>>>> "DD" == David Dorward <david at dorward.me.uk> writes:
> 
>  DD> Limiting the side effects of laziness and bad practices with
> other bad
>  DD> practices ... well, that's an interesting argument, I'll give
> you that.
> 
> that's funny.
> 
> all other things being equal, since catalyst controllers can be
> method
> agnostic there's no reason to limit the application's functionality
> by
> only allowing POST or whatever.  even in circumstances where the
> HTML
> should direct the browser to POST, accepting GET is often very
> handy.
> using openssl s_client to debug code behind SSL encrypted
> connections,
> for instance.  (that's not to imply that it's not possible with
> POST,
> but it's less trivial.  particularly at 3 am.)
> 
> i think the maxim is:
> 
>   be strict in what you send and generous in what you receive.
> 
> applications adhering to this philosophy tend to last.
> 
> 
> k.
> 
> 
> -- 
> kevin montuori
> montuori at gmail.com
> 
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