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Ah, I see... POST requests should be idempotent, ideally. PUT requests certainly must be; it's their defining characteristic. GET requests, though, just should

Ah, I see... POST requests should be idempotent, ideally. PUT requests certainly must be; it's their defining characteristic. GET requests, though, just shouldn't have side-effects at all. (A /toggle URL isn't idempotent. If it were /open and /close it would be, but still shouldn't be GET.)

bombcar 3y ago
Yeah I think people are saying "GET shouldn't change state" and using idempotent incorrectly (which is more "hitting this multiple times shouldn't change things more than once").