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		Zikes on March 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Limitations of the GET method in HTTP Specifically the intent was to say that it would be a violation of the HTTP/1.1 spec to change the response based on the contents of the message body, however if /delta used a hash of the message body contents in the URL then it should still be semantically correct.

jrochkind1 on March 2, 2015 [–]

ooh, that's clever. but yeah, would be a pain for developers trying to actually work with the API, to have to create a hash just to make HTTP happy.

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