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		brettcvz on July 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Passing Pointers I mean you can do that right now with URLs no? When you need the content, do a GET request on the link, when you want to save do a POST. This is especially nice for images as you can just throw the url we pass back in an img tag

icebraining on July 23, 2012 [–]

Nitpick: you'd save with a PUT. Otherwise, yes, that's exactly what one should do.

brettcvz on July 23, 2012 | [–]

Yes - my bad. To be fair, we support both, but PUT is the proper verb

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