[STR-2928] Add method attribute to html:link

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: Future
• Component/s: Tag Libraries
• Environment: all
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Durham
• Created: 15/Aug/06 21:26
• Updated: 27/Aug/07 02:44

Description

It would be nice to have the html:link tag accept an optional "method" attribute that defaults to "get" and when set to "post" does one of a couple different things.

1 - adds a form, method="post" with hidden elements and a javascript link to submit the form.

2 - adds a form, method="post", with hidden elements and a button to trigger the action

This is needed because of the issue brought to light by google accelerator wrt URLs that do something other than retrieve data-- they need to be HTTP POSTs. So a common use case for html:link is to create "delete" links, which should be http POSTs.