[wp-hackers] Any other way to do it? (or, do we really need Nonces?)

[Chris]

newbie question, sorry - can I ask why using GETS rather than POST? When 
i have written my own php stuff I use post almost exclusively.. is it so 
that the BACK browser button behaves better?
thanks
Chris



Jeremy Visser wrote:
> Mark Jaquith wrote:
>   
>> On Feb 27, 2007, at 11:47 AM, howard chen wrote:
>>     
>>> can WP allow detete/update action thru HTTP Get?
>>>       
>> We protect HTTP GET deletes with nonces
>>     
>
> I've always disliked doing any dangerous action with GET, regardless of
> whether the links are protected with nonces.
>
> Can't we have some sort of JavaScript action that will load the
> comment/post ID into a POST form and submit it automagically?
>
> I would have suggested having separate <button>s like this styled like
> links so we could use POST still:
>
> 	<button name="comment_id" value="1">Delete me!</button>
> 	<button name="comment_id" value="2">Delete me!</button>
> 	<button name="comment_id" value="3">Delete me!</button>
>
> ...but MSIE doesn't like it.
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