From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2003-07-21T02:14:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing POST and GET variables simultaneously?

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 11:10, james_b wrote:
> David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> > Isn't it possible to get variables from POST and GET simultaneously? 
> 
> Aren't they two distinct request types? You either do one or the other?

One or the other, but:

> I suppose you could POST to a URL that included a query string, grab the 
> POST data and explicitly parse the query string (the PATH_INFO cgi 
> variable, or maybe SCRIPT_NAME).

It's not post and get at the same time, but a post can have a query
string as well as post-data.  There's also nothing that says that post
has to take a URLencoded string -- some protocols on top of HTTP (DAV &
company) use XML posted to a URL.