it’s a good idea not to allow your site to generate any kind of circular self-referential loop that can be achieved via navigation or clicking on things
Don’t nearly all sites have a logo at the top that will take you back to the homepage? I’m not really following.
My intuition is that the only safe solution is to rate limit requests; a poorly coded bot could definitely just be a while loop for the same URL ad infinitum.
[e] Unless there’s something to this I’m not thinking about.
They mean that the code is being written like it were python. You can’t get rid of the curly braces, but you can shove them all under your bed where mom can’t see.