Re: lynx-dev Post, Get prompt... plus bad html errors

[Matt Ackeret]

On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Frederic Briere wrote:
>> > Could someone please explain to me why the 
>> > Redirection of POST content. P)roceed, see U)RL, use G)ET or C)ancel
>> > prompt comes up?
>> 
>> I believe that the basic issue is one of privacy or information
>> security.  When you submitted a form with method POST, you agreed
>
>That's part of it. HTTP protocol requires that the user confirm any
>redirection that is neither GET nor HEAD. Obviously, POST falls into
>this category.

Then I guess I will ask an almost-rhetorical question -- Why don't other
browsers require the user to confirm?

>The reason why G)ET is almost always the right choice, and P)roceed
>never works, is because of CGIs (and browsers, of course) breaking the
>protocol. Following a 302 (Moved Temporarily), the HTTP client should
>issue another request to the URI specified in Location:. The type of
>this request (GET, HEAD, POST...) should not be altered.

So how about some way (runtime option, environment variable, whatever) so
it won't bring up this prompt, and default to using G)et?