From: Patrick May <patrick@...>
Date: 2004-11-09T10:28:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Query string ignored in http.post?

Hello,

On Monday, November 8, 2004, at 05:30  AM, Lloyd Zusman wrote:

> As you now know from my follow-up to my own post, I solved the problem
> by explicitly setting Content-Type to 
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
>
> This has to do with net/http, because as I mentioned, this occurs in 
> all
> CGI's and servlets, not just in the php example that I gave here.  And
> no, QUERY_STRING is not being set.  This is also true for all CGI's and
> servlets, not just php programs.
>
> Furthermore, when I do the POST via the HTML <form ...> stuff that I
> showed in my original message, the same php and all other CGI's and
> servlets see QUERY_STRING being set, and the variables are available.
> This no doubt causes the Content-Type to be properly set.

Makes sense.  Glad you figured it out, thanks for posting the fix.  I 
was curious :-)

Cheers,

patrick