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Re:You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent? by downer68 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @02:25PM (#16969840)
So what?

If I never intended for the GET to be GOT, then the browser is just as much at fault for such unintended consequences.

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Re:You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent? by scottmf on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:06PM (#16972571)
That’s the whole point of HTTP request methods: it isn’t. GET should never cause such side effects. The entire web is built with these principles in mind precisely so that problems like this don’t happen.

If you want a slower browsing experience feel free to disable prefetching in your browser, but this isn’t a hill worth dying on.

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