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Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 6 Apr 2000 00:31:09 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
HTTP GET isn't part of the API for that CGI script (only HTTP POST is part of
the defined API).  I just added a thingy to reject GET requests.  (You still
needed your member sign-in cookie with the GET, of course.)  GETs are
undesirable in this case because the raw data winds up in the httpd logs.

Sorry. I was just playing. (A lot easier to make a URL pointing to a get
request. *grin*)

Now if I can only figure out what happened to the message I typed up yesterday
or the day before about rate.cgi...it's possible that I forgot to post it.
Still digging...

I tried to search for it (found to docs on avid.cgi, btw) with no luck.

It would be very nice to have an script that works in a way opposite to
rate.cgi -- i.e., takes a lugnet.newsgroup:#### and returns the rating data.
(avid.cgi seems awfully inconvenient for this purpose.)

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
 
(...) (URL) a while to find, cause it wasn't in admin.general... but I remembered it was a reply for a post from me.... :) I would like to see a complete api posted though... :) Dan (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
  Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
 
(...) Have a look at HTTP::Request::Common... If you have a file of spooled-up outgoing ratings to submit periodically, i.e. lugnet.foo.bar 70 lugnet.bar.foo 40 lugnet.glorp.gnort 80 etc. and you slurp it into a scalar variable $ratings, then you (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general) ! 

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