Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without user intervention (2019)

Re:Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without u... by _wldu on Friday August 20, 2021 @07:14AM (#28244783)

Thanks. I don't use JS, just Go with HTML templates. I populate the form now with {{ .code }} from the URL so the user does not have to copy/paste the code. But they do have to click 'Submit' to post the form. I think this is a reasonable approach that most users are OK with.

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Re:Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without u... by weird-eye-issue on Friday August 20, 2021 @08:54AM (#28245416)

You could add a single line of JS to have it auto submitted as well

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Re:Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without u... by _wldu on Friday August 20, 2021 @09:18AM (#28245585)

Wouldn't that be equivalent to just doing a GET?

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Re:Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without u... by weird-eye-issue on Friday August 20, 2021 @11:05AM (#28246866)

No... Because you have to do a GET, execute JavaScript, and make a POST request. Bots don't execute JavaScript and no well-behaved bots are going to make POST requests

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Re:Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without u... by SamBam on Friday August 20, 2021 @09:30AM (#28245703)

No, because if you curl the original url the POST for the second url won't be triggered, but if you navigate your browser to the url, the browser will trigger the POST.

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