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At 2:49 PM -0500 1/6/04, Strolia-Davis Christopher Contr MSG/MAT wrote:
>Although I haven't actually researched how Amazon does this,
>it is possible to do this sort of thing using remote
>javascripting(A fancy title for posting to a hidden iframe).
No, that's not how they do it. I just turned off JavaScript and
cookies, went to amazon, and successfully added an item to my cart. I
think they do it through extensive URL rewriting. Remember a GET
request can run a program on a server just as easily as a POST
request. A POST cannot do anything a GET can't do. The difference is
that a POST operation should not be cached or repeated because it may
obligate the client, while a GET is supposed to be SAFE.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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