alt Hacker NewsNot every request is idempotent and its not known when or why a request has failed. GETs are ok (in theory) but you can't retry a POST without risk of side effects.
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bdangubic • today at 4:17 AM
I am a contractor and have been fixing shit large part of my career. non-idempotent POSTs are just about always at the top of the list of shit to fix immediately. To this day (30 years in) I do not understand how can someone design a system where POSTs are not idempotent… I mean I know why, the vast majority of people in our industry are just not good at what they do but still…
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There were some issues with replaying certain GETs back in the day:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16964907