Re: About comment #2

Thanks for this clarification. So in this case I agree with the 
rationale of BPWG (but note the typo as raised by CarlosI earlier in the 
thread). Still, one of the questions by Johannes was whether POST-based 
applications can be tested for mobileOK. Unless there are objections we 
should send this as a comment (in addition to the typo).


Jon Ribbens wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

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