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Re:The HTTP QUERY Method specification by rocqua on Sunday May 28, 2023 @12:47AM (#36101220)
Idempotency and safety is about how to send POST requests, rather than how to handle them.

You can't pre-fetch a POST request, or re-try after a timeout. Because you have to consider that the POST request could have unintended consequences if sent too many times.

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Re:The HTTP QUERY Method specification by lacasito25 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @03:26AM (#36101913)
That looks more of a documentation problem, rather than an HTTP problem.

You just document that that POST endpoint doesn't actually modify data.

A great example of this are OpenAI completions.

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