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		kevinstubbs on March 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dudes, this is so not REST Add a random number to the end as a param to force no-caching.

wahnfrieden on March 16, 2011 [–]

My point was that it's not a good thing for requests for cacheable content, that might not be cached since you used a query param to access it. Some caches ignore requests with query params since "queries" are often not static.

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