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The HTTP QUERY Method (www.ietf.org)
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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why not just allow GETs to include a body though?

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Backwards compatibility, it's never been valid to send a body with a GET, and software does enforce that (to varying levels)

    It's easier to create a new verb with the wanted semantics, than to change an existing one.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    you can still send a body with a get, it's just up to the server to accept and parse it.

    I suppose you could use a proxy like nginx or apache and rewrite the body to params, but that's not really what GETs are for.

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