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Re:Some New HTTP Verbs by svieira on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @11:13AM (#32825369)
The standard says "POST means NOT-IDEMPOTENT" and "clients MUST not re-issue a non-idempotent requests" and the client behavior naturally falls out of those two constraints.
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Re:Some New HTTP Verbs by samatman on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @11:15AM (#32825397)
The standard being completely backward and impossible to enforce is a problem!
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Re:Some New HTTP Verbs by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:21PM (#32826383)
standards are agreements, they've never been there with the expectation of enforcement.
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Re:Some New HTTP Verbs by samatman on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:26PM (#32826457)
Unenforceable and unenforced are very different things.
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Re:Some New HTTP Verbs by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:33PM (#32826559)
Unless you've got state actors behind it, it's unenforceable, full stop.

We saw this when MS would regularly ignore HTML standards.

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