Jul 27

Submit buttons not submitting

Wow, I have been busy lately, what with a hectic workplace and personal life. But I am here to tell you about a little problem I have known about for years but recently popped up when a friend couldn’t work out what was happening.

 

Jul 2

POST requests are actually GETs

I found out a pretty interesting, and slightly strange, feature of the HTTP protocol today. When submitting a form as a POST request, if you set the action to the targeted files folder name without the trailing slash it submits the form as a GET request—this caused me to scratch my head over a script for a couple minutes.