Re: [whatwg] a href= ping=

2005-10-25 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, On 10/21/05, S. Mike Dierken [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [whatwg] a href= ping=

2005-10-25 Thread Lachlan Hunt
S. Mike Dierken wrote: 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). POST requests are unsafe because the intent is to modify the data identified by the resource - data modification is