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Re:You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent? by notheguyouthink on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @09:32AM (#16966881)
Yea, but his point was that GET requests should be idempotent.. when that's not the important part of GET. That's why I used the example of GET /door/open, because that is idempotent, but it's still gross - it's causing a state change from a GET request while still being idempotent.

GET being idempotent is not the issue the author was dealing with. State change from a GET is the real issue.

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