Overloading the request method using URL paramaters, as the author mentions is a bad idea. What is accepted behavior, is overloading the request method using h

Overloading the request method using URL paramaters, as the author mentions is a bad idea. What is accepted behavior, is overloading the request method using hidden form data in a POST request. The later is what Rails actually does - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/form_helpers.html http://guides.rubyonrails.org/form_helpers.html section 2.4 "There are two noncontroversial uses for overloaded POST. The first is to simulate HTTP's uniform interface for clients like web browsers that don't support PUT or DELETE" - RESTful Web Services, Leonard Richardson & Sam Ruby.