How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague
SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 15, 2010
That means, the Web server has to deal with the same load as with a GET request , it just deletes the content portion (the compelety formatted HTML page) when responding, after counting its size to send the Content-Length response header. But: the script invoked gets completely processed, just the output is trashed.
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