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well, there is the implication that we will see HN posts a la "Google deleted my content!" google says they will only post POST request that are automatically
by franze 15y ago
well, there is the implication that we will see HN posts a la "Google deleted my content!"
google says they will only post POST request that are automatically triggered onpageload and will have no other side effects other than (fetching & ) rendering content.
ok, lets say google does 1000 000 000 POST requests and gets it 99.999% right. this means that there will be 1 000 000 occurrences where google actually will trigger some unintended side-effects.
"At scale everything breaks" (c) Urs Hölzle http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2011/06/22/google-at-scale-everything-breaks-40093061/ http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2011/06/22/google-at-scale...
- davedx 15y agoIf you have POST actions that are not behind any kind of authorization or validation step then you've already shot yourself in the foot.
- rwmj 15y agoIf you've got a website and look at the logs, you'll notice dozens of badly behaved bots, spam farms etc that follow any and every get or post link, fill in forms with spam and submit them, and ignore robots.txt. If your site is deleting comments based on an unauthenticated POST, you've already got a broken site.