Re: idempotence of POST

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Larry Masinter wrote:
>c) allow the return value of POST to indicate that the request
>   can be repeated safely.
>

Wouldn't the problem with (c) be that the client may be repeating the
request because of some failure the first time- IE: without receiving a
reply code. In that case the client would have no way to distinguish
between a request that could be retried and one that needs to prompt the
user.



Alex Hopmann
ResNova Software
hopmann@holonet.net
http://www.resnova.com/

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