[seam-dev] Can someone please take a look a this

[Norman Richards]

On Nov 22, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:

> I'm the author of the PrettyFaces extension. I just thought I would  
> provide some explanation.
> Currently, if you wish to create bookmarkable URLs in Seam, when you  
> submit a form with validation that fails, the form URL will display  
> the JSF view ID (eg. /faces/store/buy.jsf), at this point Seam will  
> have to send a redirect to the browser to redirect them back to the  
> proper URL (eg. /store/buy). This is alright, but it causes wasted  
> bandwidth, increased client wait time, and extra CPU usage. On a  
> high-load system, this can matter a lot.

You almost always want to redirect after a POST to keep the browser in  
a sane condition.   That being said, we should be be rewriting  
outgoing URLs even in this case, and if we aren't I would think it's a  
bug we need to fix.  I'll take a look and see if I observe the same  
behavior.