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tempfiletoday at 1:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

Depends whether your form submission should expect side effects or not. Most forms submissions have side effects. If the effect is truly idempotent, wouldn't PUT be a better verb? That is also supposed to be idempotent.


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echoangletoday at 2:29 PM

You can’t use PUT as a form action though.

dirousseltoday at 4:52 PM

GET and QUERY are both idempotent.

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