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Subject: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 42795]  New:  - GET used for unsafe operations
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Date: Mon,  2 Jul 2007 08:13:12 -0700 (PDT)

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           Summary: GET used for unsafe operations
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: 5.5.23
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Webapps:Manager
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: erharold@gmail.com


The Tomcat manager app (usually found at http://hostname:8080/manager/html) uses
HTTP GET and a links for unsafe operations such as restarting, redeploying,
starting and stopping the server. For example,

http://hostname:8080/manager/html/stop?path=/host-manager

Protecting the links with JavaScript "are you sure messages" is an unreliable
kludge.

These links should be redesigned to use POST instead of GET. 

I suspect I don't have to explain the importance of this to this group, but just
in case:

http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html

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