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. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: Bill de hOra http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/05/06/idempotency/comment-page-1#comment-1640 Bill de hOra Thu, 01 Jan 1970 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 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 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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