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afavouryesterday at 2:01 PM1 replyview on HN

Is caching not the primary reason to use this over POST? You should never want to cache POST requests.


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drdexebtjlyesterday at 8:28 PM

No. Being idempotent, it also lets the browser/client/reverse proxy retry it if it fails.

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