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[General] Google Web Accelerator doing bad things?

Would you be worried if I'd tell you people using your intranet website with links named, say, "Delete", might have installed this cool little web accelerator called Google Web Accelerator which pre-fetches the content behind that "Delete" link?

Interested? Read more about it over at 37signals.

UPDATE: It was a bug

TrackBacks[0] Comments[2] Posted by lasse on October 25, 2005 9:50:27 PM EEST

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*ahem* This is why various web standards mandate that GET be an idempotent operation, with state-changing operations delivered via PUT (aka form submission)

Comment from Robert Watkins on October 26, 2005 3:29:13 AM EEST

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Yep. And that's being discussed in the comments for that thread over at 37signals.

Comment from Lasse on October 26, 2005 11:21:23 AM EEST

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