What's often left out is the reason that that's a useful rule to have: if PUTs a...

bct on Jan 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: REST worst practices

What's often left out is the reason that that's a useful rule to have: if PUTs are always idempotent, then you can always safely repeat a PUT if you're not sure whether it succeeded or not. This makes it easier to build robust systems.