At Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:37:38 -0700, "John D. Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, well, actually, that's the point... Idempotence means you get > the same effect. If the effect is that the resource has been e.g., > deleted successfully then, by definition, you should get the same > status code and response for all of the DELETE calls.
I read this as ‘side effect’, like a side effect in functional programming. I tend to agree that it would be good if you got then same response, but the constraint is that you simply get the same side effects, not the same actual response. OPTIONS, for instance, should not have side effects, but it has a response. best, Erik Hetzner ;; Erik Hetzner, California Digital Library ;; gnupg key id: 1024D/01DB07E3
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