At 06:33 PM 2/16/00 -0500, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
>If you do this, please make sure the final step is done with an
>HTTP POST, not a GET as I've seen various sites do lately.
>
>GETting a URL shouldn't have side effects, so if you implement it
>as described above, the page returned by the first URL should
>display a form with a button that can be POSTed to perform the
>actual act of joining or leaving the list.
>
>An alternative is to include a small form in the email message so
>the user can POST it directly with a single click.
I can't possibly disagree with you more. A URL with some operands should
be expected to do something. If you mark it, "click here to confirm", then
they click here to confirm. Why make a user who can barely do one thing do
two things? re we totally addiced to "Are you Sure?" boxes for everything?
We are not writing mail for a browser here. I send my confirm URL's,
tokens and all, as regular URLs, which default to get whe clicked on. If
you click on a URL with a bunch of operands, why would you expect it not to
do something?
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