Why should you delete using an HTTP POST or DELETE, rather than GET?

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Jon Skeet’s answer is the canonical answer. But: Suppose you have a link:

href = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/786070/\myApp\DeleteImportantData.aspx?UserID=27"

and the google-bot comes along and indexes your page? What happens then?

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