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Re:REST Anti-Patterns (2008) by ferentchak on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @01:38PM (#14309994)
You can blame old browsers for this. In the old days if you returned a non 200 the browser could die in all sorts of interesting ways. Heaven forbid if you try and use any verb other than GET or PUSH, it probably turns the fan off your computer to try and start a fire or something.
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Re:REST Anti-Patterns (2008) by coldtea on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @02:22PM (#14310361)
>You can blame old browsers for this. In the old days if you returned a non 200 the browser could die in all sorts of interesting ways.

No, they really didn't. And I've started with Mosaic...

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Re:REST Anti-Patterns (2008) by mhluongo on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @01:45PM (#14310054)
Do you mean POST?

Also, these days, I think the blame is more likely lazy devs, poorly complying frameworks, or compromises to make things easier for some frontend library.

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Re:REST Anti-Patterns (2008) by JustSomeNobody on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @03:46PM (#14311020)
Who on Earth is using a browser so old that this might actually happen?
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