Posted by swpulitzer@yahoo.com on 12/22/05 04:17

I have a page that lists a bunch of objects, stored in a database, to
the user. After each object I'd like to do something like:

object1 [edit] [delete]
object2 [edit] [delete]

and so on, where "edit" and "delete" are links. Right now, each link
uses GET to pass the object ID to the scripit that will deal with it.
For example, the urls for the first object links are something like:

edit: http://www.host.com/edit.php?obj=object1
delete: http://www.host.com/delete.php?obj=object1

and similar for the second...you get the idea. This works alright for
the edit option, since it's okay (even advantageous) for a user to
bookmark it. However, it's problematic for the delete option. If a user
bookmarks it, and then tries to visit the site later, they might
unintentionally delete something. I can't use POST since this doesn't
lend itself to a form. I know I could throw some javascript in there to
handle it, but I'm trying to avoid javascript as much as possible.

Does anyone know a better way to do this? Thanks.

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