- From: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@album.co.nz>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:04:16 +1300
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 13:57 -0700, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: > Hello, > > On 10/21/05, S. Mike Dierken <mike at dierken.com> wrote: > > > > > > Or is it just "hitting" -- making an hidden HTTP GET request of each > > > > token in the "ping" attibute? > > > > > > Right. Hidden HTTP POST request, as it happens, but yes. > > Oh, that really shouldn't be done via POST. Clicking a link should be safe > > and sending a POST as a side-effect is not safe. > > Yeah, that's my thinking too. Perhaps we could use a totally new HTTP > method for this (instead of "GET", "POST", or any of the other > existing ones out there). Maybe "PING" I'm not sure where this idea has come from that sending POSTs is inherently unsafe (which, by the way, no-one has offered a good explanation for yet). There's nothing wrong with POST being used for this purpose IMHO, but I'd be very interested to hear arguments to the contrary. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene General Manager Album Limited e: jasper at album.co.nz w: http://www.album.co.nz/ p: 0800 4 ALBUM (0800 425 286) or +64 21 232 3303 a: PO Box 579, Christchurch 8015, New Zealand
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