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Hide such operations with form submissions (Score:1)
It is generally known that some web crawlers (especially Spam harvesters) ignore robots.txt, and follow links that they should not follow. The best way to resolve it is to make sure that such operations can only be performed by submitting a form - not by following a link.
Why is it not the case in the Birmingham OpenGuides?
Re:Hide such operations with form submissions (Score:2)
Because OpenGuides software automatically creates Category or Locale nodes. The intention was for it to be helpful, which when used correctly it is. However, when abused it auto creates all sorts of junk.
I'd now consider it a serious flaw in the OpenGuides code, as it can allow anyone with malicious intent to create nodes that have no relation to the openguides site and virtually hijack the site. The clean up process becomes time consuming and extremely irritating.
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Re:Hide such operations with form submissions (Score:1)
Ah, the perils [plasmasturm.org] of violating the idempotency of
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