GET parameters working in POST requests using Prototype 1.5

Rails
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Hiall,

I just noticed that in code I wrote quite a while ago I did the
following, which actually worked fine:

new Ajax.Request(’/foo/bar?param1=foo&param2=bar", { … })

The thing is, I didn’t specify method: get so Prototype issued the
default POST request. My rails controller had no problem accessing the
parameters via the params hash. Now I’m thinking, is there any reason
that rails/prototype didn’t complain that I was using GET parameters
in my POST request? Should it actually complain or not? Is there any
reasonable situation where one would mix POST and GET parameters? I’m
a little confused, as my general opinion would be to at least ignore
those parameters or even better, give a warning somehow? Or does it
simply not matter to mix these and it is therefore ok?

thx in advance
Martin G.

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In your controller, you should have something like the following to
limit specific actions to only work as posts.

verify :method => :post, :only => [ :destroy, :create, :update ],
:redirect_to => { :action => ‘show’ }

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On 14-Feb-07, at 6:55 PM, Martin G. wrote:

parameters via the params hash. Now I’m thinking, is there any reason
that rails/prototype didn’t complain that I was using GET parameters
in my POST request? Should it actually complain or not? Is there any
reasonable situation where one would mix POST and GET parameters? I’m
a little confused, as my general opinion would be to at least ignore
those parameters or even better, give a warning somehow? Or does it
simply not matter to mix these and it is therefore ok?

thx in advance
Martin G.

in my previous incarnation as a java-dude, I’d often mix GET params
inside a POST request - generally for the purposes of authentication.

Prototype will just see it as part of the URL, and Rails is likely
parsing it wholesale into params.

Jodi