Comments on: Idempotency: It’s not just for APIs (or, the web is an API) http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/05/06/idempotency It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:40:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta3-9771 hourly 1 By: Bill de hOra http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/05/06/idempotency/comment-page-1#comment-1640 Bill de hOra Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=642#comment-1640 <p>"So, like... uh... Did Google build their accelerator that way just to provide a dramatic example of why explanations of REST focus repeatedly (to the annoyance of some) on the fact that the HTTP GET method is specified as and should be implemented as idempotent?"</p> <p>I reckon they might have done just that:</p> <p>http://www.dehora.net/journal/2005/05/only_the_paranoid_survive.html</p> “So, like… uh… Did Google build their accelerator that way just to provide a dramatic example of why explanations of REST focus repeatedly (to the annoyance of some) on the fact that the HTTP GET method is specified as and should be implemented as idempotent?”

I reckon they might have done just that:

http://www.dehora.net/journal/2005/05/only_the_paranoid_survive.html

]]> By: Aristotle Pagaltzis http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/05/06/idempotency/comment-page-1#comment-1641 Aristotle Pagaltzis Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=642#comment-1641 <p>The problem with "javascript:do_foo()" is that it'll break for people who have no Javascript – obviously.</p> <p><a href="http://plasmasturm.org/log/292/">It's not at all hard to have our cake and eat it</a>, though.</p> The problem with “javascript:do_foo()” is that it’ll break for people who have no Javascript – obviously.

It’s not at all hard to have our cake and eat it, though.

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