Html.post parameters--changed the names: OK? about de-re-basic

[jMarcS]

The "GitHub Markdown" ate your changes; probably they are in <>. Try again?

[mrleavitt]

Could you double check. My copy, re-synched, reads as follows:

Html.post , <list_nexp>
Execute a Post command to an Internet location or HTML file.
is a string expression giving the url that will accept the Post.
<list_nexp> is a pointer to a string list which contains the Name/Value pairs needed for the Post.

[jMarcS]

I agree with what you're suggesting - all of the other html commands use the <parameter> notation. I can't see the actual names you're using. The github html editor is not displaying them. Doesn't matter, I don't doubt the names you chose will work. For future reference, you can enclose them in backticks ` Tap/click "Preview" to see what it will look like when posted.

That said, I still have a problem with the original wording. In general, a URL, or URI, can refer either to an internet location ("http://www.xyz.com", "ftp://www.xyz.com") or a local file ("file://path/xyz.txt"). But POST is an http directive to a web server. A file can't do a post. A file can't do anything.

So unless Paul knows something I don't -- and believe me, Paul knows LOTS of things I don't -- we need to drop the "HTML file" part of the description.

[mrleavitt]

OK. I'm "assigning" this one to Paul.

[RFO-BASIC]

Sometimes the notion gets to complex (for me) to use. In those cases I reverted to something simpler. Sometimes I just go lazy. I will leave it up to decide which to use and when.

[mrleavitt]

Got it. I dropped the "HTML file" wording. And we'll go with the "standard" usage (in angle brackets). I haven't been 100% consistent with this in the editing. I'm hoping to catch a few more stragglers in the final edit. If anyone sees any that I missed, please note them here.