By Meryn on

I'd like to see that all search operations in Drupal would use HTTP GET instead of POST. This way, a search would be bookmarkable, and search results could even be used as a custom RSS feed.

http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html

This would also be a step in the direction to make Drupal get in line with some of the very thoughtful principles of REST.
http://rest.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ShortSummaryOfRest

All the major search engines use GET for search operations.

Has the issue of using GET or POST been discussed before?
If so, why did you choose for POST?

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bertboerland’s picture

bertboerland commented

are available in drupal. post is default when searching but

http://drupal.org/search?keys=http%20get

works as well
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groets


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groets
bert boerland

Meryn’s picture

Meryn commented

So why isn't get the default for search forms? Now, when a user does a search, he can't bookmark or link to it. To do this, he would need to hack the URL (assuming he knew that the search-handler accepted both URL query variables as well as POST variables. That's a usability issue, isn't it?

Because the search-handler already supports both GET and POST, the only thing that needs to be changed is the form HTML (method="get").

neofactor’s picture

neofactor commented

the new version of drupal 4.6 and up must have a new way to do this.

Try: http://drupal.org/search/node?keys=http%20get
or http://drupal.org/search/node/http%20get

David McIntosh
neofactor.com