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>>And don't even get me started about the nonsense that a GET doesn't modify anything

It is not nonsense. It is a very useful convention. If you stick to it, you get some system properties ... for example, you can very easily put a caching layer (nginx, varnish, etc ...) which can reduce a huge amount of load to your backends, without worrying that it will change the behaviour of your backend.




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