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can robots trigger events

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:32 am
by Beebosoft
I have a web site which allows the user to login and book people onto courses. The pages can only be used if you have a username and password. On one of the pages the user can cancel a delegate on a course. When they hit the link they are asked if they are sure they want to cancel the delegate. My question is when the robots etc trawl through my site can they bypass the login and get to my private pages and if so could they trigger a deletion.

My brain tells me that if they try to login without a username and password they wil just get sent to the "your login was incorrect" page but just want to be certain.



Thanks in anticipation
Nuts

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:40 am
by Stryks
To the best of my knowledge, spiders generally don't attempt even the most basic of forms, but if your pages are accessible (i.e a page that isn't linked from the front but is still viewable if you know the URL) then it's possible, even likely, that these pages will be found.

Of course, if these pages validate login status ... well .. it shouldn't matter.

Still ... others here may be able to advise further.

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:04 am
by Beebosoft
Thanks for your reply. the pages are not available from the home page just to those who know they exist. there is a login validation on each page so I can be pretty sure that they will not trigger then thanks that puts my mind at rest.

Nuts