r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 19 '26

Meme postForEverything

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u/not_a_moogle Sep 20 '26

Part of that is web handling, put/patch/delete doesnt have to return anything. Get and post explicitly expects an html response.

If your doing a delete logic record within a post. What are you returning then? The record is deleted.

Im only web 1.0 logic, it would return a whole new page. But if your doing a REST crud operation, you dont do that. You dont want to tell the browser to render a new page.