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jcelerier on July 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?

everything that relies on a "common understanding" from humans or ridiculous things like non-compiler-enforced idioms, programming styles, etc. is bound to fail at some point. the only thing that matters is what the PL / system accepts.

robertlagrant on July 19, 2022 [–]

Do you think that browsers pre-emptively executing GET requests, or proxies caching GET responses, is a common understanding from humans?

jcelerier on July 19, 2022 | [–]

Those are just bugs from engineers who assumed that such a common understanding existed. Bug reports should be filled, that's all.

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