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Just send a POST request lol

• HideousKojima 4y ago
  But you're only "supposed" to use POST with requests that add/modify data, or something silly like that. In practice, QUERY is most useful for where you want a bunch of different verbs for the same endpoint and need a body.
• spiffytech 4y ago
  QUERY is cacheable.
  • est 4y ago
    ... in theory only. Not that many http cache programs support QUERY. And many HTTP middle-boxes bans non GET/POST verbs.
    • counttheforks 4y ago
      For now. Change has to come from somewhere.
  • cogman10 4y ago
    And retry-able.
• duxup 4y ago
  In practice I think that’s exactly what many people do.
• Existenceblinks 4y ago
  GraphQL is doomed?
  • RedShift1 4y ago
    No, this would actually be very useful for GraphQL API's.
• NickLamp 4y ago
  I do... but there are good reasons to not want to. If you read the linked spec you can learn for yourself https://httpwg.org/http-extensions/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body.html https://httpwg.org/http-extensions/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-m...