[Slogger] Does slogger re POST?

Ken Schutte kschutte at MIT.EDU
Thu Oct 6 11:43:21 EDT 2005


I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but this may be a bug in Firefox. 
Slogger runs the same code as when you do File->Save As in Firefox.  Try 
that and see if you get the same thing.  I think there was an issue of 
it sending extra GET requests when you save a page.

Ken

Claus Dahl wrote:
> Is it possible that Slogger does not honor REST principles? I am 
> investigating a bug in a web application that's exposed by slogger. It's 
> the usual kind of problem where the application was not guarding agains 
> accidental GET requests, so that morphing changes ot the web resource 
> could happen as a consequence of a GET request. Now however the app 
> seems to be properly guarded against GET - but my issue with sloggers 
> persists. It's as if Slogger reruns the request currently displayed in 
> the browser, even if that was a POST request - which Slogger obviously 
> shouldn't, since that might delete/update and so on web resources. Has 
> anybody seen somehting like this or is the app still broken?
> 
> Claus
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