* Patrick Donelan <p...@patspam.com> [2009-01-23 02:30]: > Except, what if the crawler is inside the user's browser?
Yeah. Or other scenarios that involve programmatic agents with knowledge of credentials or making use of ambient authentication, like maybe a Greasemonkey script that does something fancy. The point of GET being idempotent is that it is one factor that goes into enabling what Roy calls “engineering for serendipity”; in this case by providing a base level of assured safety. If you cannot assume such safety then no exploratory examination of hypermedia is possible because undesirable effects may lurk behind every link. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
