What is an HTTP POST API? REST API Series,POST method, response codes, errors, best practices & more

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[amaranand]

Thanks for the great explanation. I'm wondering about the situation when you have to just trigger some kind of service which will do some db operation. Since this service doesn't actually need any payload, what are your thoughts on using the POST method for this. I know stackoverflow says it's okay to use POST but would like to if there's anything else that you'd rather do.

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