[vlc-devel] Adding POST support to the http access module

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

   Hello,

On Tuesday 28 December 2010, Jakub Wieczorek wrote:
> The problem I'm struggling with is that the HTTP module
> doesn't support the POST operation, which is the mandatory method for
> one of the requests I need to be making to the service. I would like
> to add support for this to that module but I'm not sure if such
> addition would be acceptable given that, from what I understand, the
> access modules were designed to support "read-only" routines for
> playback and not to support the entire protocols.

The HTTP access assumes that HTTP requests are idempotent. And the whole point 
of POST requests is to be non-idempotent, whereas GET requests are idempotent. 
So HTTP POST really does _not_ belong there.

On top of that, form data cannot be represented in HTTP request URIs, at least 
not in a standard fashion.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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