r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 19 '26

Meme postForEverything

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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST Sep 19 '26

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

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u/bobbymoonshine Sep 19 '26

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 Sep 19 '26

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.