alt Hacker NewsForms, HTTP implementations, public API surfaces, and all for what exactly. Introducing a new verb for this feels profoundly misplaced
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alpinisme • today at 12:51 PM
At least support - or lack thereof - for a new verb is unambiguous (compared to changing the semantics of GET)
Idempotency is an important attribute for correctness. Yep, you can document that POSTing to $ENDPOINT is idempotent, but you can't communicate that to caching layers throughout the network. QUERY, by definition, is idempotent and cacheable.