From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2003-07-21T02:16:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing POST and GET variables simultaneously?

> Aren't they two distinct request types? You either do one or the other?

The problem is that I'm using mod_rewrite to do pretty URLs, like 
"/board/show_topics" gets rewritten to 
"/app/controllers/board.rbx?action=show_topics". So now when I post to 
"/board/create_topic", I don't get the action variable.

> 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).

Ahh. That's a good idea -- as a work-around. I was surprised, though, 
coming from PHP, that I wouldn't just get it all.