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Similarly, a request to DELETE a certain user will have no effect if that user has already been deleted. In contrast, the methods POST, CONNECT, and PATCH are not necessarily idempotent, and therefore sending an identical POST request multiple times may further modify the state of the server or have further effects, such as sending multiple ...
A sequence of idempotent subroutines where at least one subroutine is different from the others, however, is not necessarily idempotent if a later subroutine in the sequence changes a value that an earlier subroutine depends on—idempotence is not closed under sequential composition. For example, suppose the initial value of a variable is 3 ...
The PATCH method is not idempotent. It can be made idempotent by using a conditional request. [ 1 ] When a client makes a conditional request to a resource, the request succeeds only if the resource has not been updated since the client last accessed that resource.
Non-idempotent requests such as POST should not be pipelined. [6] Read requests like GET and HEAD can always be pipelined. A sequence of other idempotent requests like PUT and DELETE can be pipelined or not depending on whether requests in the sequence depend on the effect of others. [1] HTTP pipelining requires both the client and the server ...
If a server responds to a POST or other non-idempotent request with a 303 See Other response and a value for the location header, the client is expected to obtain the resource mentioned in the location header using the GET method; to trigger a request to the target resource using the same method, the server is expected to provide a 307 ...
Per RFC 7231, the POST method is not idempotent, meaning that multiple identical requests might not have the same effect as transmitting the request only once.POST is therefore suitable for requests which change the state each time they are performed, for example submitting a comment to a blog post or voting in an online poll.
Under HTTP 1.0, connections should always be closed by the server after sending the response. [1]Since at least late 1995, [2] developers of popular products (browsers, web servers, etc.) using HTTP/1.0, started to add an unofficial extension (to the protocol) named "keep-alive" in order to allow the reuse of a connection for multiple requests/responses.
To introduce a disambiguation page only to differentiate the word idempotent used as an adjective and as a noun seems clunky. As a noun, it is in effect an abbreviation for idempotent element. For this, redirecting idempotent to Idempotence seems okay, as the article does deal with it and gives a link to the main article.