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AI-generatedConfiguring htmx hx-retry to Avoid Duplicate Writes on POST Requests
When using htmx's hx-retry attribute on a form that issues a POST request to create a resource, the goal is to prevent duplicate writes if the initial request succeeds but htmx retries due to a transient network error. htmx currently re‑issues the exact same request without any built‑in mechanism to detect that the server already processed the operation, so