IE7 default form method is now 'GET'.. why?

thepisu@gmail.com

I am a web developer, and after the upgrade from IE6 to IE7, some ASP
pages stopped to work... The problem was that I had not set the
"method" (Get/Post) in some forms, and Internet Explorer 7 use as
default method the GET, that can give errors if the form data is too
long; Internet Explorer 6 used POST as default method.

I know that is always a good practise to set the form method, and it
was my fault, but I was astonished of this choice.... Why change this
default option from one version to another, and why change it in
worse, with the possibility of errors? And IE7 is the only browser to
use GET as default method, making harder the compatibility with other
browsers.

Ok now I've add method attribute to my forms, but I think it will be a
very good idea to reset POST as default attribute, within some updates
of IE7.

Rob ^_^

Hi pisu,

My guess is that this came about because most search queries need to be
'get's (though other browsers accept post), but they account for less than
20% of browser usage. There seemed to be alot of confusion with the
development of the IE7 Search Discovery standards.

I think (, from memory, I am not on my regular machine) that
request("parametername") will return the values from either a Post or a Get
request, rather than using request.querystring("parametername") or
request.form("parametername")

Regards.
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>I am a web developer, and after the upgrade from IE6 to IE7, some ASP
> pages stopped to work... The problem was that I had not set the
> "method" (Get/Post) in some forms, and Internet Explorer 7 use as
> default method the GET, that can give errors if the form data is too
> long; Internet Explorer 6 used POST as default method.
>
> I know that is always a good practise to set the form method, and it
> was my fault, but I was astonished of this choice.... Why change this
> default option from one version to another, and why change it in
> worse, with the possibility of errors? And IE7 is the only browser to
> use GET as default method, making harder the compatibility with other
> browsers.
>
> Ok now I've add method attribute to my forms, but I think it will be a
> very good idea to reset POST as default attribute, within some updates
> of IE7.
>