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Is caching not the primary reason to use this over POST? You should never want to cache POST requests.

• drdexebtjl 4mo ago
  No. Being idempotent, it also lets the browser/client/reverse proxy retry it if it fails.
  • nfw2 4mo ago
    Technically a put or a patch is also idempotent. The benefits are idempotent and safe (and semantically appropriate). Post (generally) communicates something is changing whereas a query doesn't
    • gamache 4mo ago
      PUT is idempotent, PATCH is not always. The semantics of a PATCH payload are up to the server and standards like JSON Patch (RFC 6902, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6902 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6902) allow non-idempotent operations like adding an item to a list.
      • nfw2 4mo ago
        I stand corrected although using patch this way seems goofy to me.