PATCH isn't idempotent.

Cheers,


On 28 Jul 2014, at 1:52 pm, Paul C. Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 12:48 +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 
>> Just that the PATCH method is defined for generic mechanisms, not 
>> application-specific ones; if your payload is application-specific, you 
>> might as well use POST.
> 
> If the intent is for the operation to be idempotent, then I believe PATCH can 
> still be more suitable for an application-specific payload.
> 
> Paul

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