Baby seals are unsympathetic anyway. But everybody loves polar bears (and they eat baby seals too!).
Seriously object destruction via GET is no fun to mess around with. And Dr Freeze's description should read "a crawler *will* delete your objects". It's worth it to read up about REST and why it's structured the way it is. Merb isn't opinionated about how you want to build your stuff, but it is opinionated about respect for standards adherence (hopefully not blindly so [Yeh, gerrof my case, Zed!]). anyway check out rtomayko's post about it, it's a good place to start: http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife here's another good explanation of why post vs get matters: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/methods.html#why Really, it's bad mojo. (your users will hate you, it'll make the universe divide by 0, and google will eat your babies) Don't do it! -T On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Matt Aimonetti <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
