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Re: [WWWOFFLE-Users] [Fwd] The Spider of Doom (RISKS 24.22)

Juliusz Chroboczek
Thu, 18 May 2006 22:29:37 -0700

>   [the Google spider] does, however, follow every hyperlink on every
>   page it finds, including those with "Delete Page" in the
>   title. Whoops."

Why is anyone using GET for deleting pages in the first place?  It
should be triggered by a POST so that automated user agents and
upstream proxies can know that it has a side effect.

                                        Juliusz