Re: WhenToUseGet-7 comments

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 09:43, Dan Connolly wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 13:45, David Orchard wrote:
> >   Does this suggest that there should be
> > a general property of operations that specifies safetey, which could then be
> > bound to POST?
> 
> Marking HTTP POST operations safe is different from what I had in mind.
> I don't see anything wrong with it, but I don't see very much benefit
> from it either, compared to the benefit of making the results
> of safe operations addressable.

I am trying to understand what it means to make a POST
operation safe. Does this mean designing a new method that 
carries a message body but is identified as a safe method 
(QUERY?) or does this mean something different?

 _ Ian

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Received on Wednesday, 17 September 2003 09:55:47 UTC