all you need

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:08:43AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (The following is a warning to fellow WWWOFFLE-users to
> keep anything recursive away from reading pages via
> WWWOFFLE, if you are an AddCacheInfo user.)

> That must have been it, my hogwild recursive request.
> Therefore please add a CAPTCHA math test to that delete
> page...

This is wrong solution.

To avoid such nasty things, all irreversible operations must
be performed by POST requests. This is what recommended by
w3c for "all state-changing" requests.

For now you should disable modify-html when you use wget
(not only because of this issue). There is a tricky way to
achieve it without changing configs.  WWWOFFLE does not
modify pages when ht/dig or some other indexing bot requests
it. It looks info "User-Agent" header.  So, if you run wget
with --user-agent="ht/dig" (read the sources for exact value
for user-agent, I don't remember), you will not receive the
links to delete and other links from footer.

btw, there is already http authentication for deletion. how
did wget pass it?

-- 
Max


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