[mythtv-users] visit from googlebot

Jacob Steenhagen jacob at steenhagen.us
Mon Oct 2 15:35:39 UTC 2006


On Mon, October 2, 2006 11:23 am, Jacob Steenhagen wrote:
> While it's true that an unprotected MythWeb can cause many problems, this
> particular one can be mitigated with a little bit of conventional wisdom
> regarding web applications. "Best practice" says that any action which
> will cause some kind of permenant modification (such as deleting a
> recording!) be done using a POST rather than a GET. Web bots do not follow
> POSTs, therefore no matter how often googlebot visits, no recordings would
> be lost.

FWIW, I filed a bug to track this.

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2517




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