[Laszlo-dev] For Review: Change 20080225-hqm-q Summary: add data to SWF SOLO POST requests, to ensure that Flash does not turn them into GET requests

[André Bargull]

One question:
Non-proxied POST-requests only get a "__lzbc__" cache-breaker, when 
their "postbody" is empty and they've got "queryparams"?! Was that your 
intention?
> if (postbody == null && qparams != null) {



On 2/25/2008 7:10 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:
> Change 20080225-hqm-q by hqm at badtzmaru.local on 2008-02-25 12:53:53 EST
>     in /Users/hqm/openlaszlo/trunk/WEB-INF/lps/lfc
>     for http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk/WEB-INF/lps/lfc
>
> Summary: add data to SWF SOLO POST requests, to ensure that Flash does 
> not turn them into GET requests
>
> New Features:
>
> Bugs Fixed: LPP-5368
>
> Technical Reviewer: andre
> QA Reviewer: max
> Doc Reviewer: (pending)
>
> Documentation:
>
> Release Notes:
>
> Details:
>
> SWF has a bug whereby an empty POST request (one with no data in it's 
> post body) is turned into a
>  GET request. This behavior used to be masked by the way we forced all 
> query args into the POST
> body for post requests.
>
> When a change was made to  separate  and preserve the query string 
> from the post body, people
> started reporting bugs where their POST requests became GET requests.
>
> This patch forces the "__lzbc__" cache-breaking timestamp arg into the 
> body of SOLO post requests.
>
> I am wondering if I should also force this value into Proxied 
> requests, to ensure that
> the data which is sent to the back-end is consistent between SOLO and 
> proxied requests. This
> patch only forces the __lzbc__ arg into SOLO POST  requests.
>
>
> Tests:
>
> test.lzx:
> <canvas debug="true" height="400" >
>     <dataset name="dsGroups" request="true" type="http" src="test.jsp" 
> querytype="POST"/>
>     <datapointer name="dpGroups" xpath="dsGroups:/Response">
>         <handler name="ondata" args="d"><![CDATA[
>             Debug.write(d);
>         ]]></handler>
>     </datapointer>
> </canvas>
>
> test.jsp:
> <%System.out.println(request.getMethod());%>
> <Response>
>     <Method><%=request.getMethod()%></Method>
> </Response>
>
> also, test/lfc/data/alldata.lzx
> amazon.lzx
> calendar.lzx
>
> Files:
> M      data/LzHTTPDataProvider.lzs
>
> Changeset: 
> http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20080225-hqm-q.tar
>