Re: spec review: ping attribute

Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
> Having read this entire thread, I don't see why anything is actually 
> wrong. In this context the difference between GET and POST is negligible 
> — both can technically be used to do what is desired, though using GET 
> would be breaking RFC 2616 (or rather, breaking a SHOULD NOT). If we 

No, sorry, that's incorrect.

If you want to do something silently (without the user's consent), you 
simply have to use a safe method.

And if you consider the desired effect non-safe (which I don't), then 
the consequence is that you just can't do it.

 > ...

Best regards, Julian