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Forms, HTTP implementations, public API surfaces, and all for what exactly. Introducing a new verb for this feels profoundly misplaced
by 100ms 4mo ago
Forms, HTTP implementations, public API surfaces, and all for what exactly. Introducing a new verb for this feels profoundly misplaced
- jagged-chisel 4mo agoIdempotency is an important attribute for correctness. Yep, you can document that POSTing to $ENDPOINT is idempotent, but you can't communicate that to caching layers throughout the network. QUERY, by definition, is idempotent and cacheable.
- jnewton_dev 4mo ago[flagged]
- inigyou 4mo agoLarger scales like what? I expect that everywhere you currently cache GETs you can cache QUERYs. But does caching GETs work at scale?
- resters 4mo agoGreat point. I wish more people realized that intuitively.
- alpinisme 4mo agoAt least support - or lack thereof - for a new verb is unambiguous (compared to changing the semantics of GET)