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

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> Wed, 17 May 2006 20:49:53 +0200

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>   [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