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Re: Malicious documents? (WAS: Interesting mailing list & a ra


Re:  Malicious documents? (WAS: Interesting mailing list & a ra
--- Miles Sabin <miles@m...> wrote:
> Interestingly, the RESTian push for GET over POST for web services is 
> likely to make exploits of this sort easier. That's not a criticism of 
> REST per se, but it suggests that RESTians probably have a duty to 
> think about the security implications of GET vs POST.

The HTTP spec describes some of the security implications of method
selection.[1][2] No REST advocate I've encountered has advocated using GET for
actions that are not safe. What sort of additional implications were you
thinking about?

Jim

[1] - http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.1
[2] - http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec15.html#sec15.1.3

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Jim Ancona
jim@a...                     jancona@x...

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