RFC 2324:Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (H...
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... Commands to control a coffee pot are sent from client to coffee server using either the BREW or POST method, and a message body with Content-Type ...
... A coffee pot server MUST accept both the BREW and POST method equivalently. However, the use of POST for causing actions to happen is deprecated. ...



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