Re: $_PARAMETERS Super Global Object

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > On 2/24/12 4:34 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: >> >> On Fri, February 24, 2012 4:16 pm, Larry Garfield wrote: >>> >>> On 2/24/12 3:28 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: >>> Because GET and POST are not even remotely the same thing and treating >>> them as completely interchangeable is a bug in the first place. >> >> >> We'll have to agree to disagree here. >> >> To me, it's just a request for some content, and in a REST API that's >> read-only, I just don't care if the consumer sends their request as >> GET or POST.  I'll cheerfully give them what they wanted. > > > Except that per HTTP, GET and POST are completely different operations.  One > is idempotent and cacheable, the other is not idempotent and not cacheable. >  I very much care which someone is using. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're referring to the HTTP *method* used. A POST can be made to a URL that includes a query-string, but what that means as far as interpreting the variables is undefined as far as I know. Because of that, I think it's a bad idea to either treat them as the same thing, or rely on both $_POST and $_GET parameters being present.