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+# Riddles Lab Assessment
+
+Pat,
+
+Everything looks good!
+
+Regarding your reflection on GET and POST requests in e-commerce:
+
+>    1. The "shopping cart" interface on an online store might be a series
+>    of requests from the user to go to product pages and add items to cart.
+>    Part of the response would be an update to the shopping cart and on
+>    something like Amazon, the indicator in the corner telling you how many
+>    items are currently in your cart. I feel like the product page would
+>    bet a GET and adding an item to cart would be a POST?
+
+This sounds right. One helpful way of thinking is that GET requests should
+not cause any changes, while POST requests should cause some kind of change. 
+Therefore, it's safe to re-issue the same GET request over and over (e.g. 
+reloading a webpage) but the same is not true of POST requests.