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onionisafruit 79 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Idempotency is easy until the second request is di...

The 409 should come with an id or a url the client can use to find the original result.

stickfigure 79 days ago [–]

...and if you're using the approach of "let the client pick ids", you don't even need that. The client has everything it needs.

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