Ruby on Rails

Hi Marnen,

> What do you need a tutorial for? It's easy to use a Web browser or a
> tool like curl to send an arbitrarily crafted GET or POST request that
> never came from your form but looks as if it did. That's just the way
> that a stateless protocol like HTTP works: each request is its own
> universe and (absent hacks like cookies) doesn't keep track of what the
> last request was.

Thanks. I'm finally getting that idea through my thick skull. As I
said to another respondent, I was using the Desktop-Programming model
in the stateless Internet-Programming environment. Thanks to you, et
al, for getting that cleared up for me.

Best wishes,
Richard

On Aug 9, 11:16 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> RichardOnRails wrote:
> > Hi Hassan,
>
> >> > It can't be nil. When the form is instantiated
>
> >> Assuredly, it can be -- a request can be generated without your form
> >> being involved at all.
>
> > I don't get it.  Can you point me to some tutorial that deals with
> > this issue?
>
> What do you need a tutorial for?  It's easy to use a Web browser or a
> tool like curl to send an arbitrarily crafted GET or POST request that
> never came from your form but looks as if it did.  That's just the way
> that a stateless protocol like HTTP works: each request is its own
> universe and (absent hacks like cookies) doesn't keep track of what the
> last request was.
>
> Best,
> --
> Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org
> mar...@marnen.org
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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