[Catalyst] Using URL for /search/parameters: bad idea?

[Kieren Diment]

Kieren Diment
PhD Candidate
Health Informatics Research Lab,
Faculty of Informatics,
University of Wollongong
Tel:  +61 4221 3952




On 27/09/2011, at 10:47 AM, Andrew Rodland wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Marius Olsthoorn <olsthrn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Consider using the query part of the URI to represent the search.
>> Browsers are very good at bookmarking these :)
>> 
> 
> What in the world is that supposed to mean? Are browsers *bad* at saving
> bookmarks for other kinds of URLs?

What he means is a GET request can be bookmarked and have it's state recalled.  A POST request on the other hand hides the state required to make the request from teh URL.