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--- On Thu, 5/27/10, Romulo <romuloab@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, my question originally was: what is the situation
> with REST
> that let GET and POST become blurred? IIRC, REST is quite
> emphatic
> about what each HTTP method should do, i.e.: GET can not
> have side
> effects, PUT should create a resource referenced by the
> URL, POST
> should change, and DELETE should remove it.
> 
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonSimpleDB/latest/DeveloperGuide/

You can see that amazon use GET to perform side effects. It may be their poor choice but what I meant to say is, there really are sites out there using GET for everything.