Al Musella, DPM wrote:
> ever since then, I never use a link to make a change in my 
> database. It is just too easy to trigger it by accident.

Google ran into the same issue with their web accelerator plugin a while 
back.  Too many people had actionable items behind links and it caused a 
lot of problems for people.

It's actually part of the specifications that GET requests (links) are 
to be used only for retrieving information.  Actions are not supposed to 
be taken based on a GET request to the server.  Actions are supposed to 
be reserved for form, or POST requests.

Unfortunately, many applications (some of my older ones included) don't 
follow those rules all the time and things get weird as a result.


-Justin

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