Re: Zero-edits Counter Proposal for Issues 1 and 2 (Ping)

On Feb 17, 2010, at 7:41 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> On 17.02.2010 16:30, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>
>> ..
>> It's possible that we could define a new method for @ping, call it
>> PING.  It would still be "unsafe", that is, not idempotent, by
>> definition.  I'm not sure what possible benefits this could bring  
>> over
>> just using POST, though.
>> ...
>
> "safe" and "idempotent" are different things.

Aren't all "safe" methods also "idempotent" by definition?

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 21:18:06 UTC