Article:		Interacting with Resources: Web Architecture Review
Subject:		PUT and POST methods
Date:		2004-01-26 09:26:02
From:		John Cowan
The definitions of PUT and POST above are reversed: it is PUT that changes the state of a resource, and POST that adds new resources.

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• PUT and POST methods
  2004-01-26 09:40:51 Kendall Clark [Reply]
  
  Yes, you're right; I'm correcting them in the text. (Note, however, and this isn't for John's benefit, as I know he knows this, that the semantics of POST are fairly ambiguous and not merely for creating new resources.)

  
  Thanks, John.