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Elliotte Rusty Harold
Personal blog · elharo.com/blogprogrammingweb
Elliotte Rusty Harold's personal blog at elharo.com covers programming and web. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “POST vs. PUT”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
The only comment does not discuss this blog's writing. It is about REST verb semantics (PUT needing the full resource body, versus POST for create) in an Ask HN thread on a DNS API.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- POST vs. PUT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-23
What Hacker News says?
Well yes technically the API does "work." The problem is that most people are coming from rails land (which is also where I'm from, btw) and over there, they have implemented "REST" as POST=create and PUT=update. This doesn't even really make sense in rails actually. For a proper PUT request you have to specify the full body of the resource to be "put." It literally is supposed to be telling the server, "hey, put th…
Comment linking /blog/software-development/web-development/2005/12/08/post-vs-put/
on “Ask HN: Feedback on REST API for managing DNS”Submitted POST vs. PUT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free Code? Free Art? as a story · 1 points
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