- From: Christopher K. St. John <cstjohn@quik.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:28:33 -0600
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Miles Sabin wrote: > > Daniel Hellerstein wrote, > > server side includes in GETs of html documents might cause > > changes in "state" variables.). > > That's not allowed. GET is idempotent which implies it must > be stateless. > > You should be using POST for that sort of thing. > 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. -cks
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