- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:38:24 -0700
- To: "Paul Prescod" <paul@prescod.net>
- Cc: <LMM@acm.org>, <www-tag@w3.org>
> The whole point of mandating GET be safe is to allow systems to rely > upon that knowledge. Search engines would not exist were it not for the reco-Mendating GET to be safe is a great goal. But if you are advising people to *trust* that any GET is safe, then I suggest that you clarify the scope of that guarantee. I like my original wording better, but I would also accept: "The above recommendation is being made because non-safe use of GET is a widespread problem. This recommendation has no way of stopping people from using GET in an unsafe manner, but is intended to educate. Therefore, you should NOT trust URLs (and particularly those with querystrings) that were deployed before this recommendation became effective, and you MAY trust URLs that are deployed after, to the degree that you expect the whole world to drop what they are doing and start following this guideline."
Received on Wednesday, 24 April 2002 02:10:19 UTC