Comments on: GET requests and "wings fall off" buttons http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/10/24/get-requests-and-wings-fall-off-buttons/ Open information and technology. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:40:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: david http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/10/24/get-requests-and-wings-fall-off-buttons/#comment-335 Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:03:22 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=68#comment-335 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://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/10/24/get-requests-and-wings-fall-off-buttons/#comment-334 Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:58:13 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=68#comment-334 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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