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HTTP with Julia Evans (Summer Break Repeat)

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The Importance of HTTP Request Methods

So there are these different kinds of HTTP request methods. Everybody knows that there's get post and some other ones. Although there's still not like a, like a pay API. That would be coolHTTP request for pay. But I felt like wasn't there like a status code, an HTTP status code for like, like didn't pay, but they never actually implemented it? Yeah, I think there is. Exactly. Anyway, so you have these things get post, put other things. Why does it even matter? Because isn't everything in the body? Like, doesn't all the processing actually happen at the behest of the body?Yeah, that's a great question. So traditionally

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