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		pavel_lishin on Oct 12, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Spider of Doom > That would stop half the web working. What do you mean?

loup-vaillant on Oct 12, 2011 [–]

Probably that half the web rely on GET requests to do things they are totally not intended to do, like, deleting a resource.

Therefore, if you suddenly find a way to actually forbid GET to ever trigger that, then that half wouldn't work "properly" any more.

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