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Re:Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages... by mike503 on Saturday August 12, 2023 @02:04AM (#37097461)
Also firing a second request would break restful behavior and could wind up really messing stuff up worse. Maybe it places an order twice? Who knows. Not a good idea.
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Re:Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages... by notRobot on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:41PM (#37102491)
If reloading a page (which is what this is identical to) breaks your website, that's not on the user.
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Re:Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages... by notRobot on Saturday August 12, 2023 @05:30PM (#37104407)
GET requests are not supposed to modify server state.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45016234/what-is-idempot...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP#Request_methods

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