I agree with Yehuda, the reason why I didn't mention the crawlers is because you might protect your link and only show it to admins for instance.
Btw, me not being your friend anymore should be a compelling enough reason to do things right ;) - Matt p.s: what if I were telling you every time you make a GET request on a modifying action, a little baby seal dies in Antarctica, would that help? On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Nicolas Cavigneaux <[email protected]>wrote: > > Jim used another way to tell it but I think it's more explonatory this > way. > > Crawler and "WebAccelerators" are evil! > > Le 8 janv. 09 à 17:17, Michael D. Ivey a écrit : > > > > > On Jan 8, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Jim Freeze wrote: > >> I think specifically the problem here (and the real reason this > >> should > >> not be done) is that a crawler (using get requests) can actually > >> delete an object. > >> To me, this is the real danger and the real issue and the reason for > >> avoiding this type of web coding. Not because "it's evil", or "it > >> will > >> make the web unhappy" or "Matt won't be my friend". ;-) > > > > That's why it's evil and that's why it makes the web unhappy. They're > > the same thing. > > -- > Nicolas Cavigneaux > http://www.bounga.org > http://www.cavigneaux.net > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
