https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19161





--- Comment #5 from Splarka <[email protected]>  2009-06-11 22:31:46 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> From a purely philosophical position, database changes (such as account
> creation) resulting from a HTTP GET seem to go against the spirit of RFC 1945,
> where the POST method was specifically created for such purposes.

Malicious remote websites could still force visitors to POST to Wikimedia. A
simple <form> with someformelement.click() would do nicely.

Also, bug 19006 can be a similar scenario perpetrated locally. Eg:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates?input=%5Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fsome.dirty.website%2F%3Fuser%3D%7B%7Burlencode%3A%7B%7BREVISIONUSER%7D%7D%7D%7D+some+citation%5D


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