Re: [Maypole-dev] Are GET requests for Maypole actions a good idea?

From: Danijel Milicevic (Danijel.Milicevic at rawmode.org)
Date: Sun Oct 24 2004 - 21:25:30 BST


Hello Max,

> Hi all,
>
> I've just downloaded and installed Maypole 2.0 over my old 1.7
> installation, and everything worked fine, but I found one questionable
> thing:
>
> I really like GET requests over POST forms, because buttons look ugly,
> but having the C<delete> action on a GET request is a bad idea in my
> opinion, because web robots spider GET requests. Of course, one could
> try to overcome this by having a proper robots.txt, but as the
> robots.txt is site-wide, that might be hard to accomplish.
>
> So my proposal would be to make the C<delete> action POST again, and
> maybe style it to look like any "normal" link...
>
> -max (Corion)

Absolutely right. Will change it to <DEFANGED_form><input's> as it's the only way
to fix it right now. Expect a 2.02 release tomorrow.

Best regards,
Danijel

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