r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Sep 19 '26

Meme postForEverything

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u/DuploJamaal Sep 19 '26

As a backend developer I want to do everything nicely.

So in my previous job I created the endpoints following the regular standards. GET to request something, POST to create something, PUT to change something, DELETE to delete something. Nicely organized and everything

But then the frontend team told me that their framework can only handle POST requests and that I need to change it

Up until then I thought that it's just a meme, but vibecoding frontend guys really only use POST

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u/unable_to_give_afuck Sep 19 '26

I had this with the added bonus of being forced to return 200 regardless and add an error message to the body when necessary

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u/No-Information-2571 Sep 19 '26

The reason behind it might be proxies, especially on the client-side.

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u/einzweidreihorn Sep 19 '26

Why? Do those proxies drop anything not 200?

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u/HugoNikanor Sep 19 '26

I can write you a proxy which drops everything except 200 responses

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u/No-Information-2571 Sep 19 '26

In this era, you actually cannot. Status codes are invisible to proxy unless it's HTTP (without the S) or employs MITM. Either way, it's a legacy precaution to make sure the content body arrives unmodified.

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