- From: Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:39:55 -0000
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Christopher K. St. John wrote, > SHOULD (in the rfc2119 sense) is unfortunately the operative > word here. GET's idempotence is a SHOULD, not a MUST. > Reference rfc2616, section 9.1.1. Not at all. I don't see anything there, or anywhere else, which states that GETs idempotence is optional. All it says is that GET "SHOULD NOT have any significance other than retreival". That's a *very* long way from permitting side- effects. It allows but discourages, for example, a server making a rude noise when it handles a GET ... but that's not state. Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin Cromwell Media Internet Systems Architect 5/6 Glenthorne Mews +44 (0)20 8817 4030 London, W6 0LJ, England msabin@cromwellmedia.com http://www.cromwellmedia.com/
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