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

J C Lawrence claw@kanga.nu
Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:05:41 -0700


On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:34:50 -0400 (EDT) 
Dale Newfield <Dale@Newfield.org> wrote:

> 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.

It is making a mistake.  W3C specs state that only POSTs may have side
effects, not GETs.

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