[thelist] GET requests and sent content
Michal Migurski
mike at teczno.com
Mon Oct 11 16:00:12 CDT 2004
> Now I am definiteley one to avoid javascript when there is a built in
> browser function which does the same thing by default. I have been
> told by the very knowledgable lead developer that normal form get and
> post requests also send back the entire html of the page they are on
> and hence they use JS to minimize the size of the sent data.
That's absurd.
> Can anyone via actual reference confirm or deny my suspicions about
> the browser GET / POST system???
No need to look at reference, when this can be easily checked
first-hand:
Have your lead developer look at packet dumps of the data being sent
back.
Or have them create a very, very large HTML page and measure the amount
of time it takes to download it vs. submit a form on it.
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