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cperciva on March 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dudes, this is so not REST

POST is not idempotent. POST is explicitly what you should use for non-idempotent operations.

This is why your web browser issues "need to resend a form" warnings when you return to earlier pages.

rosser on March 15, 2011 [–]

Oops. Looks like, when I double-checked the RFC, my brain stuck POST in there. That'll show me for trying to be pedantic in the middle of doing thirteen other things.

Thanks for the correction.

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