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Difference between POST and PUT. Any other differences?
Tests whether you go beyond 'create vs update' to the deeper distinction -- PUT is idempotent (repeating it produces the same result) and the client typically determines the resource URI, while POST is not idempotent and the server usually assigns the new resource's identity.
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