HTTP GET requests are supposed to be idempotent, but they often have the side effect of appending some request details to a log file, which can eventually grow so large that it fills the disk and takes down the server.
By Maxwell Jacobson
HTTP GET requests are supposed to be idempotent, but they often have the side effect of appending some request details to a log file, which can eventually grow so large that it fills the disk and takes down the server.