What is Idempotent methods and web applications?
Submitted by: Murtaza
Methods PUT and DELETE are defined to be idempotent, meaning that multiple identical requests should have the same effect as a single request. Methods GET, HEAD, OPTIONS and TRACE, being prescribed as safe, should also be idempotent, as HTTP is a stateless protocol.
Submitted by: Murtaza
An idempotent HTTP method is a HTTP method that can be called many times without different outcomes. Again, this only applies to the result, not the resource itself. EG: PUT and DELETE
Submitted by: Laxmi
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