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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
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