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An Overview of the Idempotency Request Header Field
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Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes Jayadeba Jena and Sanjay Dalal to discuss their recent submission of a draft to the IETF Network Working Group for an Idempotency-Key HTTP header field.
Speakers
Kin Lane
Chief Evangelist, Postman
Jayadeba Jena
Director, API Platform, PayPal
Sanjay Dalal
API Digital Transformation Leader, Colligso
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The HTTP Idempotency 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.
In this Breaking Changes tl;dr mini-episode, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes Sanjay Dalal and Jayadeba Jena to discuss their recent submission of a draft to the IETF Network Working Group for an Idempotency-Key HTTP header field. The discussion aims to get insights into standardization within the API sector and understand the value of establishing standards from existing patterns.