Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Chris Sonnack
Date : Wed Aug 17 2005 07:40 pm

Steve O'Hara-Smith writes:

>>>> 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 ?

Absolutely!  Hit counters are an abomination, anyway.
(Yeah, I'm kidding.)
((Mostly.))

> 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.

Sure, and HTML/http *has* evolved far beyond its daddy's design.

The thing is, anyone who DID mention the idempotent aspect would,
I assume, be very likely to be very conversant.

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