Comment by phab

7 years ago

GET requests are specified[0] to be idempotent:

  > Methods can also have the property of "idempotence" in that (aside from
  > error or expiration issues) the side-effects of N > 0 identical
  > requests is the same as for a single request. The methods GET, HEAD,
  > PUT and DELETE share this property.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-9.1.2

edit: formatting

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astura  7 years ago

Looks like the RFC talks about idempotence from a "side effect" perspective where I was talking about it from an "output" perspective (the generated HTML).

I agree with the RFC and I mistook what the person meant