One reason for using HTTP verbs is to distinguish between queries and updates, and for the latter, between idempotent and non-idempotent updates. This in turn m

One reason for using HTTP verbs is to distinguish between queries and updates, and for the latter, between idempotent and non-idempotent updates. This in turn makes it possible to do things like automatically retry queries on network errors or cache responses where it is safe to do so.