Sorry, but your "correction" made your statement even more inaccurate. You should have elided the scary latin "idempotent" and kept "state changing", as the lat

Sorry, but your "correction" made your statement even more inaccurate. You should have elided the scary latin "idempotent" and kept "state changing", as the latter is what GET requests must avoid. GET http://example.com/index?action=delete;recursive=true http://example.com/index?action=delete;recursive=true is idempotent, but usually not what you want to see in action on your site...