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You can change state with a GET request. You aren't "supposed" to do it but there's no technical barrier preventing an unscrupulous company from effectively using the GET as a POST.



Wait, what do scruples have to do with how you handle GET and POST?


Remember those web counter images that would increment the number displayed each time it received a GET request? They were the most evil. -scary laughter-


Thankfully they were all replaced by Google - Do no Evil - Analytics




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