[cse491] HW 5 POSTs with Queries

[Tim Miller]

yes, very much.  thank you.



On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:03 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 04:58:37PM -0400, Tim Miller wrote:
>> I'm sorry, I don't quite understand.  You recommended we use
>> cgi.parse_qs, which parses URL query strings, but here you are saying
>> we will not need to parse those?  Are POST data query strings
>> formatted the same way?  And do we still ignore URL query strings?
>
> Hey Tim, thanks for asking --
>
> There are three possibilities:
>
> 1. GET, with query data on the URL after '?'
> 2. POST, with query data in the POST content
> 3. POST, with query data in the POST content *and* in the URL
>
> You can generate #1 by putting "method='GET'" in your form.html,
> and #2 by putting "method='POST'" in your form.html.
>
> For #3, there is no need to handle it.
>
> And yes, cgi.parse_qs (and urlparse.parse_qs, in Python 2.6) can be used to
> handle both POST content and URL query strings.
>
> Clearer?
>
> cheers,
> --titus
>