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no I think this plan was scrapped, too dangerous (too many websites had stateful actions as GET). I think they just stuck to pre-loading DNS. edit: and i was m
by nraynaud 13y ago
no I think this plan was scrapped, too dangerous (too many websites had stateful actions as GET). I think they just stuck to pre-loading DNS.
edit: and i was messing the webstats for advertisement.
- rcxdude 13y agoPlus it adds load to websites, so admins don't like it. There were a number of websites which blocked users using the fasterfox extension which used prefetching.
- nraynaud 13y agothat's quite a few nails in the coffin!
- endianswap 13y agoThe best example of a stateful GET action is the Logout button on basically every website (including HN).
- aidenn0 13y agoWe had an internal wiki where the "delete article" link was a GET. Then someone wrote a crawler for it and deleted the entire wiki in 15 minutes. It was changed to a POST after that.
- vijayp 13y agoHeh, this reminds of a story many years ago at Google, where we got angry messages from some guy complaining that Google kept deleting all the photos from his online album. We eventually figured out he his online album had an unprotected "delete this photo" endpoint via a GET, and no robots restriction! We eventually had to fix the crawler to detect things like this...
- userbinator 13y agoI bet Google gets tons of these: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Spider_of_Doom.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Spider_of_Doom.aspx
- nraynaud 13y agoI love this idea that you have to be exceptionally smart not to do the best job, but to do a normal job while surrounded by mediocrity.