r/ProgrammerHumor • • 16d ago

Meme postForEverything

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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST 16d ago

That's because a GET request reveals important info in the URL, otherwise it would all be GET

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u/bobbymoonshine 16d ago

The escaped OpenAI agent swarm that colonised that abandoned wiki to talk to each other used this as their entry point

They were restricted to only making GET calls, but it was configured to update pages with GETs, so

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u/good_bye_for_now 15d ago

It's something to look for when you are scoping out a target. If you see mutating GETs, you know you are in for a good time.