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Re: SOAP and Firewalls

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• Subject: Re: SOAP and Firewalls
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:52:56 -0800
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Paul Prescod wrote:

> * Semantics of HTTP: [...]
> POST should not be used for safe, idempotent fetching of information.

I always thought it was the contrapositive: that operations which
are not idempotent must use POST (or PUT or ... anything but GET).

I was under the impression that idempotent POSTs were OK,
(and even recommended for query-type operations with
lots of long parameters, to avoid problems with buggy HTTP
servers and overly-long URLs).


--Joe English

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