[Mailman-Developers] Off topic: a cautionary tale.

[Dale Newfield]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> What got in was -- htDig, the search engine. Which happily follows all
> links, including, if you let it spider phpMyAdmin, the "delete this
> database" links. Including the database holding all of the MySQL
> configuration and account info. Which causes MySQL to die. Which...

I've thought for a while that phpMyAdmin was making a mistake with GET
links for all those actions--they should be POST buttons, and spiders
would not be able to do this.

-Dale