On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Wild Karl-Heinz wrote:

> Hallo Todd Gillespie,
> 
> Tuesday, September 18, 2001, 5:55:44 PM, Sie schrieben:
> 
> >> YM> |CGI::Request::Post # cgi.request.post
> >> YM> |CGI::Request::Get # cgi.request.get
> >> YM> |CGI::Request::Env # cgi.request.env
> >> YM> |CGI::Request::Var # cgi.request.var
> 
> >> imho it should be possible to select the values in the shown way.
> >> just for security and to be more flexible.
> 
> TG> IMHO, this is dumb b/c a request can only be instantiated with either POST
> TG> or GET.
> 
> TG> to find out if the current request is in GET or POST.
> 
> sounds usefull.
> 
> but in a submit form are also values from cookies ;-)
> which way will you go to differ this.
> 

I'm not conflating cookies with form variables.  They are distinctly
different things, and I don't know where in this thread people started
believing otherwise.