I came to this same conclusion after reading the specification for the FORM tag.
Hmm. I just skimmed through that specification, and couldn't see how you came to that conclusion.

There seems to be three uncorrelated elements:

  1. Whether the form parameters to be sent can come from both the action attribute and the form elements themselves (unclear in the spec)
  2. Whether those parmeters are encoded using GET or POST methods (selected by the form's method attribute)
  3. Whether the CGI processing agent should interpret query-string parameters in addition to content parameters when using the POST method (not specified at all in that referenced spec - that would be in a CGI spec)
Did you read something I didn't?

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: POST vs GET & their intermingling. by merlyn
in thread POST vs GET & their intermingling. by boo_radley

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