Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Steve O'Hara-Smith
Date : Wed Aug 17 2005 10:36 am

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:28:10 -0500
Chris Sonnack <Chris@Sonnack.com> wrote:

> Ben Pfaff writes:
> 
> >> If this were a written test (or THE MATCH GAME), the question might
> >> be writ thus:
> >>
> >> An http GET request is intended to be __________, whereas an
> >> http POST is not.
> > 
> > "idempotent"?
> 
> WE HAVE A WINNER!

	Hmm, so pages with hit counters should only be POSTed to ?

	The w3c docs stopped talking about idempotent a long time ago,
nowadays they talk about safe and unsafe requests and GET only being used
when the action has no significance beyond retrieval.

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