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Our browsers do not send a POST request explicitly via address line.
So,
whenever we
try to open a web page by URL, we always are sending GET (?
some=data)
requests. But what about updating data on resources? Introducing the
POST
(!=some&data).
For example, if we chose this symbol to
be "!", then, if you want to
mutate
data on an endpoint, you'd simply query your browser address by a link:
http://example.net/endpoint!param=val
And visiting it, the browser would send a POST header to the endpoint,
serializing data for the body from its URL parameters.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedi...ubmitting_web_forms
(POST) html [FlyingToaster, Oct 29 2019]
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The Wikipedia article on POST contains the line "when a browser sends a POST request..." |
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Which version of Wikipedia article? [FlyingToaster] |
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<linked> : I don't know anything about the subject, myself, mind. |
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You can easily manipulate POST data using the dev tools built-in to almost all browsers. |
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Putting POST data in a URL completely defeats the point of it. Why do you think there is a distinction to begin with? It wasn't for lack of a good choice of syntax. |
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Some things you might want to think about: |
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- Passwords sent as POST data appearing in server logs and browser histories |
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- Large amounts of form data making URLs too long and getting truncated by some systems |
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- Leaking POST data via HTTP-referrer |
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Well, I suppose the distinction obviously is to separate the I/O as !/?, the
MUTATE and FILTER types of queries. POST and GET. With GET
requests we were supposed to FILTER/SEARCH the web entities, and
with POST requests we were supposed to CREATE/MODIFY the web
entities. |
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Regarding privacy/security, this would not suffer, as it would not appear
in the logs, if implemented on the browser side as a convenience for
user to use the ! to do POST requests. |
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However, that would of course break the consistency of the browsers,
that we have, where whatever is in the URL, is just doing GET requests.
Therefore, a different color (just like the HTTPS indicator) would have to
highlight, whenever what is to be run, is a POST
request. In addition, it would probably be great to simply let the browser
users to have a consistent button or drop-down in
the link, to choose, what type of request they want to make, without
having to open developer tools. |
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Today, I suppose there exists an ambiguity such that, under legal
circumstances, you can perfectly say that you opened a link, and saw a
completely different content, because you made a POST request by
opening it, not the GET. |
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