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Re:Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute by arendtio on Saturday February 09, 2019 @12:28PM (#19123466)
I think it was a joke as GET requests are not supposed to change anything, but often they do (probably because many devs don't know about, understand or respect the RESTful concept).

EDIT: For completeness, I have to add, that I am also part of the group of people who have violated that concept. Maybe neither frequently nor recently, but I did it too :-/

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Re:Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute by chrisseaton on Saturday February 09, 2019 @12:46PM (#19123549)
> understand or respect the RESTful concept

It's nothing to do with REST. It's part of the HTTP spec and has always been, that "GET and HEAD methods should never have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval".

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Re:Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute by arendtio on Saturday February 09, 2019 @01:24PM (#19123752)
Well, if I am not mistaken, REST is just the articulated concept on which HTTP was built. So yes, the HTTP spec (probably) existed before REST became a term itself, but in the end, there is no reason to argue if REST defines it or HTTP.
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