通过网址“隐藏”表单查询（Django 1.3）

Question

I have a form with 6-7 fields. After user input, my webapp searches for those fields in a database and displays the results. Now the issue is, that the URL ends up having all the form field names and their values in it.

result/?name=lorem&class=arc&course=ipsum

Now with the form having 7-8 fields the url ends up looking ugly. Is there a Django technique to 'hide' these from the URL? Quotes around hide because I'd be okay with a completely different way to pass the objects to my database from the form as well.

Answer 1

Use a POST request . Here's the django docs on forms and a specific example using POST>. HTML-wise, all you need to do is change the method on the form tag.

Answer 2

I do not recommend to use POST requests for search. If you'll use GET it will be easer for user, he can just bookmark a link and save search or share search results with friends.