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GET requests are specified[0] to be idempotent: > Methods can also have the property of "idempotence" in that (aside from > error or expiration issues) the
by phab 8y ago
GET requests are specified[0] to be idempotent:
> Methods can also have the property of "idempotence" in that (aside from
> error or expiration issues) the side-effects of N > 0 identical
> requests is the same as for a single request. The methods GET, HEAD,
> PUT and DELETE share this property.
[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-9.1.2 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-9.1.2
edit: formatting
- astura 8y agoLooks like the RFC talks about idempotence from a "side effect" perspective where I was talking about it from an "output" perspective (the generated HTML). I agree with the RFC and I mistook what the person meant