On May 10, 2005, at 1:42 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>> BTW, "idempotent" is not actually enough.  "Safe" is actually the
>> key phrase in the specification.
>
> Surely "safe" is a weaker condition than "idempotent"?  After all, GET
> is never idempotent if the web server is logging accesses, but having
> extra accesses recorded is safe for the client.

.... and deleting something should be idempotent anyway. You can
delete the same thing as many times as you want, the result will
always be that the item no longer exists.


Ryan Tomayko
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