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Discussion on: Why you should use standard HTTP methods when designing REST APIs

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Browsers and API clients work on the assumption that a POST verb is never idempotent and will behave accordingly

Does this mean, they assume other verbs to be always idempotent and also behave accordingly?

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Suhas Chatekar

I used POST as an example in my statement. What I wanted to say that they will assume what the standard says and behave accordingly.