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Author Re: Software Job Market Myths
Steve O'Hara-Smith

2005-08-16, 5:05 pm

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:30:45 -0500
Chris Sonnack <Chris@Sonnack.com> wrote:

> A fair number of our applicants get that much right. I've been hoping to
> get one that knows a "theory-based" (for lack of a better term) difference.
>
> That is, when it's *appropriate* to use GET or POST....


What you mean like there's a limit on URL length but you can POST
as much as you like ?

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Chris Sonnack

2005-08-17, 10:01 pm

Steve O'Hara-Smith writes:

>
> Hmm, so pages with hit counters should only be POSTed to ?


Absolutely! Hit counters are an abomination, anyway.
(Yeah, I'm kidding.)
((Mostly.))

> The w3c docs stopped talking about idempotent a long time ago,
> nowadays they talk about safe and unsafe requests and GET only
> being used when the action has no significance beyond retrieval.


Sure, and HTML/http *has* evolved far beyond its daddy's design.

The thing is, anyone who DID mention the idempotent aspect would,
I assume, be very likely to be very conversant.

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