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GET requests can have a body. Some clients fail at handling this and you have to use method overrides, though.
by lucian1900 11y ago
GET requests can have a body. Some clients fail at handling this and you have to use method overrides, though.
- prodigal_erik 11y agoWe have fifteen years worth of client and proxy implementations that do not support GET with a request body. This ill-conceived spec change violates "be conservative in what you send" just to avoid adding a new idempotent request method that actually defines usable semantics for its body.
- awinder 11y agoGET requests can have a body but by spec they aren't supposed to parse it with the request https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/rest-discuss/conversations/messages/9962 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/rest-discuss/conversatio...
- sk5t 11y agoIf I had to consume an API with entity-body-having GETs, I would definitely conclude the designers had no practical experience in the field, and had read about this obscure possibility somewhere...