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Lachlan Hunt
lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Tue Oct 25 21:30:21 PDT 2005
S. Mike Dierken wrote:
>> I'm not sure where this idea has come from that sending POSTs
>> is inherently unsafe (which, by the way, no-one has offered a
>> good explanation for yet).
>
> POST requests are unsafe because the intent is to modify the data identified
> by the resource - data modification is tagged as being 'unsafe'.
I think your confusing this with the fact that using GET requests for
data modification is unsafe, and seem to be saying that POST is unsafe
when used as intended!?
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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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