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by benblack 5461 days ago
POST to /add to create a resource? Strange, redundant, and the sort of thing I thought died with old versions of Rails. Riak/Webmachine and CouchDB get this right. Because knowledge is power, here is the section on methods in the HTTP 1.1 spec http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html#sec5.1... . Sorry to inject facts into an otherwise opinion-based situation. If I've bummed you out, I apologize. Here's a laughing penguin to cheer you up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fbt1fVfi-g .

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