From cbce1b6184acae87ba220969ab2c69cf2697ea32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Chlipala <adam@chlipala.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:16:57 -0400
Subject: Top.postFields

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 doc/manual.tex | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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@@ -2310,7 +2310,7 @@ A web application is built from a series of modules, with one module, the last o
 
 Elements of modules beside the main module, including page handlers, will only be included in the final application if they are transitive dependencies of the handlers in the main module.
 
-Normal links are accessible via HTTP \texttt{GET}, which the relevant standard says should never cause side effects.  To export a page which may cause side effects, accessible only via HTTP \texttt{POST}, include one argument of the page handler of type $\mt{Basis.postBody}$.  When the handler is called, this argument will receive a value that can be deconstructed into a MIME type (with $\mt{Basis.postType}$) and payload (with $\mt{Basis.postData}$).  This kind of handler will only work with \texttt{POST} payloads of MIME types besides those associated with HTML forms; for these, use Ur/Web's built-in support, as described below.
+Normal links are accessible via HTTP \texttt{GET}, which the relevant standard says should never cause side effects.  To export a page which may cause side effects, accessible only via HTTP \texttt{POST}, include one argument of the page handler of type $\mt{Basis.postBody}$.  When the handler is called, this argument will receive a value that can be deconstructed into a MIME type (with $\mt{Basis.postType}$) and payload (with $\mt{Basis.postData}$).  This kind of handler should not be used with forms that exist solely within Ur/Web apps; for these, use Ur/Web's built-in support, as described below.  It may still be useful to use $\mt{Basis.postBody}$ with form requests submitted by code outside an Ur/Web app.  For such cases, the function $\mt{Top.postFields} : \mt{postBody} \to \mt{list} \; (\mt{string} \times \mt{string})$ may be useful, breaking a \texttt{POST} body of type \texttt{application/x-www-form-urlencoded} into its name-value pairs.
 
 Any normal page handler may also include arguments of type $\mt{option \; Basis.queryString}$, which will be handled specially.  Rather than being deserialized from the current URI, such an argument is passed the whole query string that the handler received.  The string may be analyzed by calling $\mt{Basis.show}$ on it.  A handler of this kind may be passed as an argument to $\mt{Basis.effectfulUrl}$ to generate a URL to a page that may be used as a ``callback'' by an external service, such that the handler is allowed to cause side effects.
 
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