[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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