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A comment on Ask HN: How do I convince my coworkers to use HTTP well? Or am I being a pedant?.

Re:Ask HN: How do I convince my coworkers to use HTTP well? ... by sajal83 on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @02:58PM (#9893302)
If your app does become super popular, it would be very hard to implement http-level caching when using only POST. By using GET you can do caching at client (or CDN/reverse proxy) layer.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I convince my coworkers to use HTTP well? ... by supersecret on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @03:20PM (#9893435)
Thank you, yes. This is exactly the sort of short and sweet bullet points that I'm building up.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I convince my coworkers to use HTTP well? ... by theandrewbailey on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @03:25PM (#9893485)
Even easier when you're using RESTful URLs, not query parameters.
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