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Re: Unsafe GET becoming more popular?

by mnot :: Rate this Message:

My impression was that it was getting better; after the experiences of
the Google prefetcher thingy, and some evangelisation, the majority of
the "unsubscribe me" links in e-mails I get lead to a page with a
form, not an unsafe GET.

YMMV, of course.

On 16/06/2009, at 3:06 AM, Dan Connolly wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 13:02 -0400, noah_mendelsohn@... wrote:
>> [...] I just noticed the Twit
>> [3] from JetBlue. It says:
>>
>> "Wisdom of crowds time
>> What's your favorite JetBlue
>> snack http://tr.im/jbsnacks:
>> Blue Chips (1) or Munchies
>> Mix (2) ? http://tinyurl.com/d4gjww"
>>
>> It's not 100% clear that votes are being tallied based on the link
>> you
>> click, but it seems implicit in the "wisdom of crowds" leadin.
>
> No, votes are cast in twitter replies. This case seems fine, to me.
>
>> I suppose
>> that if the Google crawler finds this particular Twit, it will cast
>> one
>> vote for each snack, and move on.
>>
>> Noah
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html#safe
>> [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
>> [3] http://twitter.com/JetBlue/statuses/2178983316
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