Posted by Daz on 01/15/07 13:03

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> Daz wrote:
> > Tim Roberts wrote:
> >
> >>"Daz" <cutenfuzzy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Is there any particular reason that you aren't using POST? Generally,
> >>>GET is for getting data, and POST is for posting. Also, I believe that
> >>>post encodes and escapes the data, too, so it will arrive as you'd
> >>>expect it to.
> >>
> >>This is not true. GET and POST requests are both encoded, although they
> >>use different schemes. With the exception of file uploads, there is
> >>nothing you can send with POST that you cannot also send with GET.
> >
> > What I meant by encoded, was encrypted, I think I just chose the wrong
> > word. I believe that POST requests are encrypted, whereas GET requests
> > are simply just encoded into URL format.
> >
>
> Nope. POST requests are sent plain text. No encoding/encrypting at all.
>
> >
> >>HOWEVER, just because one can, doesn't mean one should. Your basic advice
> >>is correct: POST should almost always be used for forms, because the URLs
> >>get too large.
> >>
> >>
> >>>My guess is that there is not URL code for the newline
> >>>chracter, as it's a control code, and not meant to be visible.
> >>
> >>
> >>Nope. That's not the problem. Another responder nailed it: you have to
> >>tell the <textarea> that you want the newlines by saying <textarea
> >>wrap="hard">. Otherwise, it assumes you don't want the newlines at all,
> >>and discards them.
> >
> > Well, it was just a guess (as stated). But that is a useful piece of
> > information to know of, and I was totally unaware of it. I personally
> > feel it would have been better the other way round, wrap="hard" by
> > default, as I think it's unlikely that you want the data in any format
> > other than the format is was entered. Many, many thanks for your input.
> >
> > Daz.
> >
>
> No, I typically do not want the nl chars in the input data. That's
> because I'm going to generally reformat it for display, anyway.
>
> >>--
> >>Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
> >>Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
> >
> >

I guess it depends on what you want to use the text for. I personally
can't imagine how or why you'd want to strip them. My personal
prefrerence would be to strip them server side if it was needed, which
would probably allow me to replace them with something else, or format
the data more meaningully. Saying that, I haven't been doing this for
as long as you, so I suppose it's just a question of time and
experience.

Thank you for your input. :)
>
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