- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:25:32 -0700
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "Public Web API" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On 2006/06/08, at 6:41 AM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > There is a convention that you don't use GET for things with side > effects, but there is nothing that enforces that convention. Caching proxies Search engines and other automated processes Google Web accelerator I think it's very effectively enforced, by the Web itself. Remember, 2616 doesn't say that there can't be side effects, just that the server has to be able to live with them without blaming the user... -- Mark Nottingham mnot@yahoo-inc.com
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