Rails - Oct 2005 - GWA and ?! suffixes

Someone posted a comment on the loudthinking blog suggesting Rails  
use a querystring to prevent GWA or other pre-fetchers from touching  
important controller methods. What if Rails used ?! for destructive  
GET operations? This is like the Ruby convention of adding an  
exclamation point to destructive methods, like String''s chop!.

Thoughts?

Beau

I''m wondering if it''s possible to use lighttpd to block
requests that
have the prefetch header... anyone know?

On 10/26/05, Beau Hartshorne
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wrote:
> Someone posted a comment on the loudthinking blog suggesting Rails
> use a querystring to prevent GWA or other pre-fetchers from touching
> important controller methods. What if Rails used ?! for destructive
> GET operations? This is like the Ruby convention of adding an
> exclamation point to destructive methods, like String''s chop!.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Beau
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