I often have stuff hapening in a hook_init that I only want to happen in GET requests. Messages and redirects etc should often not happen in a POST request. They should also not happen in the admin menu XHR request, which is a GET.

If it were a POST request, I didn't have to check method and URL...

(Don't start about REST, because it's not REST anyway. Let's not pretend we're going for semantic perfection.)

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sun
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POST requests skip caching at various layers in the first place, so that's not an option.

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rudiedirkx commented

The admin menu's HTML caching? Yeah, that makes sense.

I also read something, somewhere about caching the admin menu client side..? How's progress on that? (I can't find an issue for that.)

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sun
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The client-side caching is what defines the 3.x product line (among other architectural changes).

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sun
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I'm sorry, but I don't see why this should be changed, and even more importantly, why you'd want to do something in hook_init() whenever the admin menu is pulled.

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rudiedirkx commented

You said that a month ago =) I agreed/surrendered.