[Tools-discuss] Fwd: [vixie@isc.org: googlebot to the rescue]

In case this hasn't been seen -- it needs to be fixed (i.e., a GET shouldn't have such side effects).

Cheers,

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> Resent-From: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
> Date: 23 March 2011 12:01:23 AM AEDT
> To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
> Subject: [vixie@isc.org: googlebot to the rescue]
> organization: NIC France
> archived-at: <http://www.w3.org/mid/20110322130123.GB12433@nic.fr>
> 
> The draft management tool apparently can change the state of a draft
> in response to a simple GET...
> 
> Nice violation of the HTTP standard :-)
> 
> From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
> Date: 19 March 2011 2:50:30 AM AEDT
> To: dnsext@ietf.org
> Subject: googlebot to the rescue
> 
> 
> i think the 0x20 draft was going nowhere in any case so cancelling it is fine.
> 
> 	148.68.249.66.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer
> 		crawl-66-249-68-148.googlebot.com.
> 
> 	crawl-66-249-68-148.googlebot.com has address 66.249.68.148
> 
> it's interesting that it can be done by a web crawler, though.
> 
> re:
> 
> 
> From: IETF I-D Submission Tool <idsubmission@ietf.org>
> Date: 18 March 2011 10:36:25 PM AEDT
> To: ipr@ietf.org, dagon@cc.gatech.edu, vixie@isc.org
> Subject: Submission of draft-vixie-dnsext-dns0x20-00 has been Cancelled 
> 
> 
> This message is to notify you that submission of an Internet-Draft, draft-vixie-dnsext-dns0x20-00, has just been cancelled by a user whose computer has an IP address of 66.249.68.148.
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> The IETF Secretariat.
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