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The Idempotency-Key HTTP Header Field
draft-ietf-httpapi-idempotency-key-header-00

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Active".
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Authors Jayadeba Jena , Sanjay Dalal
Last updated 2022-01-02 (Latest revision 2021-07-01)
Replaces draft-idempotency-header
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Abstract

The HTTP Idempotency-Key request header field can be used to carry idempotency key in order to make non-idempotent HTTP methods such as "POST" or "PATCH" fault-tolerant.

Authors

Jayadeba Jena
Sanjay Dalal

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