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		sibit on July 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Introduction to APIs Interesting. I guess I've been going off of RFC 7231 > The PUT method requests that the state of the target resource be created or replaced with the state defined by the representation enclosed in the request message payload. https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7231.txt

blowski on July 30, 2023 [–]

My rule of thumb: if you know the ID of the resource you’re creating, it’s a PUT. If the system generates the ID, then it’s a POST.

treve on July 30, 2023 | [–]

More generally the URI instead of the ID.

SgtBastard on July 31, 2023 | | [–]

The I in URI, stands for Identifier...

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