Use POST instead of PUT REST POST:- is used to create and update resources PUT:- is used to update existing resources  Can I use POST instead of PUT method? and If I use POST method over PUT method, what will be disadvantages?  If POST can do work of PUT method, why PUT method is required?
What is the difference between POST and PUT in HTTP? According to , POST is used to create a resource:  The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line.  According to , PUT is used to create or replace a resource:  The PUT method requests that the enclosed entity be stored under the supplied Request-URI. If the Request-URI refers to an already existing resource, the enclosed entity SHOULD be considered as a modified version of the one residing on the origin server. If the Request-URI does not point to an existing resource, and that URI is capable of being defined as a new resource by the requesting user agent, the origin server can create the resource with that URI.  So which HTTP method should be used to create a resource? Or should both be supported?
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The question is the well-known      If there are so many/infinite stars, in every direction, why is it dark at night? Where goes all the light we don't see?    Discussing with a friend we found different answers.   The first (my friend's answer) is that given the fact that in a finite amount of time (in this case, the age of the universe), light can travel only a certain, finite, distance, we cannot see, if they actually exist, stars farther than such distance (about 13 billions of years, I guess). Then he states (or better, I got him notice he implicitly does this)  that within this radius there aren't enough stars to fill the night sky, and that's why we have darkness without sun's light.   The second answer (mine, or anyway the one I heard from a minutephysics YouTube video) is that despite of the big size of the observable universe, cosmological expansion red shifts most of the light out of the visible radiation range, so that the majority of light can't be seen by our eyes at night, while if we use, for example, an infrared camera, we should see a brighter sky, and lenghtening more and more the wavelength at which we observe the sky, we come to the uniform background radiation.  So my question is, what is the right answer? Is it one of the above-mentioned or even a third one?  EDIT: I've seen both answer may be acceptable, but what is the main contributing phenomenon? I'm currently working on a scene containing 1000+ objects which all need to be set to a different draw type to save on computationally expenses in the viewport. But doing this for every object separately is really tedious. Therefor I'm wondering if there's a way to change the maximum draw type of multiple objects simultaneously. Preferably only the selected objects. Idiom for explaining something to someone who clearly knows the topic (probably better than you) Is it a good practice to place C++ definitions in header files? My personal style with C++ has always to put class declarations in an include file, and definitions in a .cpp file, very much like stipulated in . Admittedly, part of the reason I like this style probably has to do with all the years I spent coding Modula-2 and Ada, both of which have a similar scheme with specification files and body files. I have a coworker, much more knowledgeable in C++ than I, who is insisting that all C++ declarations should, where possible, include the definitions right there in the header file. He's not saying this is a valid alternate style, or even a slightly better style, but rather this is the new universally-accepted style that everyone is now using for C++. I'm not as limber as I used to be, so I'm not really anxious to scrabble up onto this bandwagon of his until I see a few more people up there with him. So how common is this idiom really? Just to give some structure to the answers: Is it now The Way™, very common, somewhat common, uncommon, or bug-out crazy? Python metaheuristic packages I need to use a metaheuristic algorithm to solve an optimization problem on a Python codebase.  Metaheuristics usually need to be written in C++ or Java as they involve a lot of iterations, while Python is weak from this point of view.  Questions:   do any Python metaheuristic packages which wrap faster languages as C++/Java exist? do any Python metaheuristic packages based on maybe cython on numba exist? other solutions? I have a SQL Server instance that has a linked server to an Oracle server. There is a table on the Oracle server called PersonOptions which contains the following data:  ╔══════════╦══════════╗ ║ PersonID ║ OptionID ║ ╠══════════╬══════════╣ ║        1 ║ A        ║ ║        1 ║ B        ║ ║        2 ║ C        ║ ║        3 ║ B        ║ ║        4 ║ A        ║ ║        4 ║ C        ║ ╚══════════╩══════════╝   I need to pivot that data so the results are:  ╔══════════╦═════════╦══════════╦══════════╗ ║ PersonID ║ OptionA ║ Option B ║ Option C ║ ╠══════════╬═════════╬══════════╬══════════╣ ║        1 ║       1 ║        1 ║          ║ ║        2 ║         ║          ║        1 ║ ║        3 ║         ║        1 ║          ║ ║        4 ║       1 ║          ║        1 ║ ╚══════════╩═════════╩══════════╩══════════╝   Any suggestions? Do I need a visa for Paris, if my connecting flight stops for 24 hours in Paris? 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A couple days ago I visited a meta post where, a few weeks ago, my answer had been voted down, and this time it was at the top.  Could we have something like the reputation-changes tab on meta?  I suspect that the data already exists, because I once  (and I see I'm not the only one).  If something akin to reputation is already being tracked internally on per-site metas, can we get it exposed? Why did the First Order do this at the cantina? In The Force Awakens, after the First Order are alerted to BB-8, Rey, and Finn's presence at the cantina, an aerial bombardment of the compound begins. They also deploy ground troops.  Wouldn't it have been better to not have an aerial bombardment and simply have the troops surround the cantina, keeping as many people as possible bottled up inside it while they searched both the interior and surrounding area for BB-8?  Instead of a surgical extraction, the strategy that they chose seemed to create chaos and even risked destroying BB-8.  Perhaps this was a sign of the inexperience and emotionally-charged state of Kylo Ren, but General Hux seemed to have more direct authority over the deployment of troops and fighters.  So what was the strategy behind these tactics? How i recover my icloud username and password What are the differences between Factor Analysis and Principal Component Analysis? It seems that a number of the statistical packages that I use wrap these two concepts together. However, I'm wondering if there are different assumptions or data 'formalities' that must be true to use one over the other. A real example would be incredibly useful. How can I do traffic shaping in Linux by IP? We have a transparent proxy setup. I tried looking for traffic shaping in Linux, and all I could find online was to limit traffic by interface (eth0/eth1...).  I need to limit the bandwidth (never exceeding a specific limit) by IP address or IP ranges and I can't find a way to do that.  Is there any way to do that? 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