Backend · Junior · Theory

What's the difference between the HTTP methods GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE? And what does it mean for a method to be idempotent?

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They're checking whether the candidate understands the semantics of the main HTTP methods, not just "GET gets, POST sends", and can explain idempotency and why it matters in practice: safely retrying requests after failures.

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http rest idempotency

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