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RESTful Design for Internet of Things Systems

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Open akeranen opened 5 years ago

akeranen commented 5 years ago

Method should be chosen based the caching and proxy behavior, and idempotency and safety.

mkovatsc commented 2 years ago

Moved here from #26 to close duplicate:

Why it's a bad idea to use POST for everything
Quickly explain, why using a safe method can be good, why idempotent is good in distributed systems, ...
Benefits of idempotent methods for constrained IoT devices: don't have to keep track of requests.