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Comment by OvervCW

12 hours ago

There is: your browser or other type of client does not know it can repeat a POST request if it fails, whereas a QUERY request can be freely repeated in case of errors.

Not freely. It is idempotent, not safe. So it still can have serious load consequences.

  •     Unlike POST, however, the method is explicitly safe and idempotent, allowing
        functions like caching and automatic retries to operate.