Re: About comment #2

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 06:21:00PM +0200, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:
> Moreover, I also agree with the intervention(**) that the assumption on 
> the idempotent behaviour of GET vs POST is wrong. The effect of a given 
> request is application specific rather than HTTP (or HTTPS).

It has always been the case that GET should only used for idempotent
effects. It is explicitly stated in section 17.3.1 of the HTML 4.01
specification. It is also explicitly stated in section 9.1.2 of the
the HTTP 1.1 specification, RFC 2616.

Received on Thursday, 21 June 2007 17:39:04 UTC