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There is a bit of furor going on about the fact that Google's Web Accelerator will pre-fetch links. For sites with poor design that use GET links for destructive behavior, this is going to be a problem. Web spiders do the same thing, although they've never been able to get behind password-protected web sites before, so a whole new set of apps is exposed to the problem.

This is good news, as far as I'm concerned. The HTTP spec clearly states that GET should be both idempotent and side-effect free. If you have a web app that does the wrong thing, you need to fix it. Just because you got away with breaking the spec before and can't anymore, isn't going to get you any sympathy from the majority of us who have been trying to tell people why following the specifications is a good thing.

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