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Original Post: Deprecating POST
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Benjamin Carlyle has an interesting bit about the possibility of
deprecating the HTTP POST method. I think most people who have
thought deeply about RESTful architectures have had similar thoughts.
GET, PUT and DELETE are all nicely idempotent, but POST is not.
GET, PUT, and DELETE have clean, well defined semantics, but POST does
not. POST generally seems [...]