- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:48:32 -0500
- To: Martin Chapman <martin.chapman@oracle.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:14:37PM -0800, Martin Chapman wrote:
> Now I'm not saying whether it's good or bad to have side effects on a
> get, but nobody can dictate what people want their applications to do.
I'll have to defer to RFC 2616 on this;
"Naturally, it is not possible to ensure that the server does not
generate side-effects as a result of performing a GET request; in
fact, some dynamic resources consider that a feature. The important
distinction here is that the user did not request the side-effects,
so therefore cannot be held accountable for them."
- RFC 2616, section 9.1.1
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