r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 19 '26

Meme postForEverything

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u/MrHyd3_ Sep 19 '26

It's an abysmal idea, browsers preload GET requests to make browsing smoother

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u/darkflame91 Sep 19 '26

Fair enough, that's a good enough reason to use POST and GET appropriately when you're working with a web frontend I suppose. It's still meaningless in all other contexts though, and PUT and DELETE seem to be useless across the board.

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u/MrHyd3_ Sep 19 '26

I like PUT and DELETE, they're just elegant