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by TuringTest 2553 days ago
> Meant, yes, by somebody, but a web service creator can decide otherwise, for some reasons, like simplicity.

As the conclusion of the article shows, if you do that you're breaking the contracts of the web platform. It's a sure way to build a web service that won't play along well with other web services, like a search crawler.