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Idempotency and safety is about how to send POST requests, rather than how to handle them. You can't pre-fetch a POST request, or re-try after a timeout. Becau
by rocqua 3y ago
Idempotency and safety is about how to send POST requests, rather than how to handle them.
You can't pre-fetch a POST request, or re-try after a timeout. Because you have to consider that the POST request could have unintended consequences if sent too many times.
- lacasito25 3y agoThat looks more of a documentation problem, rather than an HTTP problem. You just document that that POST endpoint doesn't actually modify data. A great example of this are OpenAI completions.