I'm not asking how to detect duplicate POST requests. I'm asking if we are supposed to. According to RFC 2616 (section 9.5), POST is used to submit some sort of record/resource/data to the server ...

HTTP methods such as GET, POST, PUT and PATH. Query parameters (@RequestParams in Spring Boot). Path parameters (@PathVariables in Spring Boot). RESTful Spring Boot APIs that return JSON. Java API ...

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...