  Re: FORMs and GET  From: Ray Cromwell <ray_cromwell@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:08:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID:
<20020118040821.8603.qmail@web11807.mail.yahoo.com> To: Paul
Prescod <paul@prescod.net>, www-forms@w3.org  Why not use
<loadURI> to do it? It seems to me that these common "query" GET
requests are not really "forms" but merely link navigations that
take a single parameter, sort of like the old ISINDEX or <AREA>
and client or server-side image maps. I see Google's "form" as
nothing more than an <ISINDEX>  Google nor eBay would ever use
GET to collect "real form data", including shipping, billing, or
other database oriented information, for several reasons. First
of all, it's insecure and shows up in log files. Secondly,
because of the well known problems with GET. Third, because of
the i18n issues.  Finally, just because Google, eBay, and
everyone else uses GET for these purposes doesn't mean that its
a good thing, just that there was no alternative.  Does Google
still use GET if the user is