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> GETs are idempotent and pure, at least in theory.

No, gets are safe (do not induce any client-responsibility state changes) and idempotent (do not induce any additional client-responsibility change of state for a second identical request with no intervening action after the first), not pure (do not depend on any state outside of the request).



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