I used a SEARCH verb for an REST API years ago. Granted, we only had to support clients that we wrote ourselves. Semantically, however, it made a lot of sense t

I used a SEARCH verb for an REST API years ago. Granted, we only had to support clients that we wrote ourselves. Semantically, however, it made a lot of sense to include a payload in the request body describing the query. No one else needed to know or care that it existed.