Author Topic: Why does Profile Search use form POST? (Read 1207 times)

tmcnulty1982 · August 27, 2008, 08:35:32 am

I've setup a new CiviCRM Profile so that anonymous users can search our member database to get information about our members. To me it seems like the search page should use the GET form method rather than POST because, as far as I can tell, searching the the contact database is entirely "idempotent":

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/methods.html

I'd like to be able to link to predefined searches, but I can't do that with the current setup. Is there a reason that it needs to use POST?

Thanks,
Tobias

Donald Lobo · August 27, 2008, 11:22:47 am

for all forms we follow the PRG pattern (post->request->get, check wikipedia for more information). hence we use POST. There is no reason that we cannot use GET in a few places, but the code for now uses POST

lobo

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Why does Profile Search use form POST?

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