Posted by Rik Wasmus on 10/14/07 12:46

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:39:14 +0200, <william.hooper@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah $_GET... oh you are saying that the web site crawlers will press
> the button when they crawl the page. I wanted to use this technique to
> delete a file if you pressed the button next to it. I guess this is
> all a disaster then and I am back to square one.

They will NOT press a button, they will follow links. Links aren't the
only way they get their data though. Google Toolbar for instance reports
browsed URLs. For a one time delete statement (assuming some unique ID) it
happens to be no trouble as the 'thing-to-delete' is allready gone. Would
it be an alteration though (make this product $1,- cheaper), it could be
done over and over again.

Just use a POST for _all_ alterations and you're fine.
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Rik Wasmus

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