[ShowCart] and GET vs. POST

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 14519
interpreted = N
texte = To follow up on my problem with [ShowCart]....After seeing John's post about using GET for debugging (thanks John!), I replaced POST with GET on my ShoppingCart and Invoice pages. Was curious to see the resulting URL....Turns out the URLs looked fine...*and* the error message I was seeing when using View:Page Source with my browser (NN 4.0 Mac) went away!!!So why-oh-why should there be any difference between the two? Geeze....And since the error message didn't seem to be affecting the purchase, should I care that I'm seeing the error message with View:Page Source???Thanks,Dale dstokdyk@dvs.mv.comJohn Hill wrote:> A quick way to debug stuff like this is to change the method=post to > method=get so you can see in the URL exactly what is being sent to the > result page. Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. More! on [ShowCart] and GET vs. POST (Dale Stokdyk 1997)
  2. Re: [ShowCart] and GET vs. POST (John Hill 1997)
  3. Re: [ShowCart] and GET vs. POST (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  4. [ShowCart] and GET vs. POST (Dale Stokdyk 1997)
To follow up on my problem with [ShowCart]....After seeing John's post about using GET for debugging (thanks John!), I replaced POST with GET on my ShoppingCart and Invoice pages. Was curious to see the resulting URL....Turns out the URLs looked fine...*and* the error message I was seeing when using View:Page Source with my browser (NN 4.0 Mac) went away!!!So why-oh-why should there be any difference between the two? Geeze....And since the error message didn't seem to be affecting the purchase, should I care that I'm seeing the error message with View:Page Source???Thanks,Dale dstokdyk@dvs.mv.comJohn Hill wrote:> A quick way to debug stuff like this is to change the method=post to > method=get so you can see in the URL exactly what is being sent to the > result page. Dale Stokdyk

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