At 09:27 AM 12/14/2004, Hedzer Westra wrote: >Hi, > > > I notice that one of the features mentioned in the proposed Adlib base >profile is "the SRU protocol, i.e., HTTP > > GET/POST CGI requests". >Yes, that's true. Mostly because the SRU server was implemented inside >the Adlib Internet Server (which also handles OAI, Adlib searches, image >resizing, etc.). The infrastructure has code that makes dealing with >POST and GET one and the same thing for the upper layers, so this wasn't >a thing I spent a second even thinking about... > > > This reminds me of a discussion I had with Adam and some other Index >Data people a few days ago: is it possible > > to POST an SRU request instead of GETting it? It seems to me that it >_should_ be, but there are pragmatic > > reason[s] why it might not be the best thing. >What reasons are there for not allowing it, then? I'm all for allowing >it (mostly because of the GET length problem). I would like to advocate for specifying POST as well as GET. I know that geospatial searches can get pretty long. Eliot