Timeline for Which HTTP verb should I use to trigger an action in a REST web service?
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| Jun 15, 2022 at 22:43 | comment | added | harperska | This is an important point. Quite often it is an RPC that you want to perform, and HTTP calls are the tools available with which to perform it. This doesn't necessarily mean the system is architected poorly, just that not every valid architectural choice can be encapsulated in the REpresentational State Transfer worldview. Perhaps somebody should go and write an RFC adding a "DO" HTTP method. | |
| May 12, 2022 at 11:59 | comment | added | Michael | Learned a new word, idempotent, thanks! Your point for using put is spot on and is what I I needed. Is there any such thing as "pure" in the software development world? Thinking the RPC verb was overlooked in the RESTful specification. | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 21:00 | history | answered | Aaron Greenwald | CC BY-SA 3.0 |