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Based on the description provided by the RFC 5789 specification here - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5789 I believe that PATCH requests are not necessarily idempotent (in the same vein as POST requests). I'm quoting the specific lines from that document for reference: PATCH is neither safe nor idempotent as defined by [RFC2616], Section 9.1. A PATCH request can be issued in such a way as to be idempotent,
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Based on the description provided by the RFC 5789 specification,
I believe that
PATCHrequests are not necessarily idempotent (in the same vein asPOSTrequests).I'm quoting the specific lines from that document for reference: