This link is perhaps a bit more authoritative! http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html#checklist
oh yeah, also: Posting in Epic Thread! :) On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Ted Han <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
