Comments on: GET requests and “wings fall off” buttons http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2005/10/24/get-requests-and-wings-fall-off-buttons/ what was Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:04:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: david http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2005/10/24/get-requests-and-wings-fall-off-buttons/#comment-1678 david Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:03:22 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=68#comment-1678 Good point. A GET request can also keep you out of business school: <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2005/03/08" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2005/03/08</a> Good point. A GET request can also keep you out of business school:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2005/03/08

]]> By: Ed Davies http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2005/10/24/get-requests-and-wings-fall-off-buttons/#comment-1676 Ed Davies Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:58:13 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=68#comment-1676 Actually, a single GET request can cause you to be fined and loose your job under idiotic UK law: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/tsunami_hacker_followup/ No, following that link won't cause you to wind up in court, at least as far as I know, but it will tell you of a case were it happened. Not actually following an embedded link but using a made up URL (just appending "/../../.." to an existing one for quite plausible reasons) but the principle's the same. Actually, a single GET request can cause you to be fined and loose your job under idiotic UK law:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/tsunami_hacker_followup/

No, following that link won’t cause you to wind up in court, at least as far as I know, but it will tell you of a case were it happened. Not actually following an embedded link but using a made up URL (just appending “/../../..” to an existing one for quite plausible reasons) but the principle’s the same.

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