Re:Internet of Desks: How I Connected My Standing Desk to th...
by Filligree on Monday April 22, 2024 @11:04AM
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Ah, I see...
POST requests should be idempotent, ideally. PUT requests certainly must be; it's their defining characteristic. GET requests, though, just shouldn't have side-effects at all.
(A /toggle URL isn't idempotent. If it were /open and /close it would be, but still shouldn't be GET.)
Re:Internet of Desks: How I Connected My Standing Desk to th...
by bombcar on Monday April 22, 2024 @11:50AM
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Yeah I think people are saying "GET shouldn't change state" and using idempotent incorrectly (which is more "hitting this multiple times shouldn't change things more than once").
POST requests should be idempotent, ideally. PUT requests certainly must be; it's their defining characteristic. GET requests, though, just shouldn't have side-effects at all.
(A /toggle URL isn't idempotent. If it were /open and /close it would be, but still shouldn't be GET.)