"Thomas B. Passin" wrote:
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>...
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> Well, yes, except that the rfc says "SHOULD" not "MUST", and in actual
> practice GET is used all over the place doing things with side effects, like
> changing data in databases (of course, none of __us__ would do that,
> right?).
Nevertheless there are minor apps like Google that presume that GET is
safe with no highly publicized ill effects!
If you point me to a few of these websites using GET to do database
changes, I'll make a few hundred links to them in pages so that Google
can index them next time it comes to my site.
Paul Prescod
