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Re: Cherrypy - prevent browser "prefetch"?

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From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject Re: Cherrypy - prevent browser "prefetch"?
Date Wed, 03 Dec 2014 19:17:29 +1300
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Israel Brewster wrote:
> Primary because they aren’t forms, they are links. And links are, by
> definition, GET’s. That said, as I mentioned in earlier replies, if using a
> form for a simple link is the Right Way to do things like this, then I can
> change it.

I'd look at it another way and say that an action with side
effects shouldn't appear as a simple link to the user. Links
are for requesting information; buttons are for triggering
actions.

-- 
Greg

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Re: Cherrypy - prevent browser "prefetch"? Israel Brewster <israel@ravnalaska.net> - 2014-12-02 06:59 -0900
  Re: Cherrypy - prevent browser "prefetch"? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-12-03 19:17 +1300
    Re: Cherrypy - prevent browser "prefetch"? Israel Brewster <israel@ravnalaska.net> - 2014-12-03 10:06 -0900

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