“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless

Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by duxup on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:30PM (#31896932)

I had a customer who had some sort of software that followed the link in the email we sent (no big deal so far), and THEN would follow every link and button on that page.

We had a handy quick decline and accept button on there so they were auto declining things…

I didn’t hate email until I got into web development….

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Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by jkaptur on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:40PM (#31897091)

The crawler followed buttons on forms? And sent POST requests? Yikes..

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Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by duxup on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:46PM (#31897184)

Yup. It was a pain. I have no idea who wrote that and thought it was a good idea…

It was a super basic web form too. Probably the most html markup standard thing we have. Nothing strange about it that could have triggered some sort of strange behavior.

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Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by aabbcc1241 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @09:56PM (#31941266)

Having decline or accept buttons may not be enough.

How about having a input field asking for the email again to double check?

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