From: Niklas Frykholm <niklas@...>
Date: 2001-09-19T01:27:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21342] Re: Suggestions for new CGI lib

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:55:44AM +0900, Todd Gillespie wrote:

> > imho it should be possible to select the values in the shown way.
> > just for security and to be more flexible.
> > 
> > ..:request.post["user_var"] or
> > ..:request.get["user_var"]
> > 
> 
> IMHO, this is dumb b/c a request can only be instantiated with either POST
> or GET.
> 
> Correct way would be:
> 
> ..:request.form["user_var"]

While it is true that the request method in HTTP is either POST or
GET, most servers (at least Apache) will send you both "post" and
"get" variables, in a situation like this:

    <form action="test.cgi?get=data">
        <input type=hidden name=post value=data>
    </form>

I think that the interface should support both post/get (for users who
want to know where the data came from) and #[] for users who do not
care. Implementation would probably be something like:

    def [](key)
        post[key] + get[key]
    end

// Niklas