Bug: making server-changing actions by clicking on a link

[distobj]

There are a number of places in cpanel/WHM where some important action on the server is initiated when a user clicks on an http URL. For example, in "MySQL databases", if I want to delete a database I have to click on a link which results in an HTTP GET message being sent to the server for that link, and the deletion taking place immediately (i.e. no "Are you sure you want to delete it" form with a POST button).

The problem with this is that later, after my browser had crashed and I resumed my session, that the browser sends - you guessed it - an HTTP GET request to that same URL. Result? No database, and all the data I had imported, and changes I had made, gone.

I could bore you with what the specification of HTTP 1.1 says about this, but hopefully this single, very practical problem will suffice for cpanel/whm to fix this problem. Database deletion isn't the only place this happens. It's quite common.

Thanks.

[chirpy]

If you want to make an enhancement suggestion to cPanel you should log it in bugzilla.cpanel.net as such. Search beforehand as it may already have been suggested.