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Thoughts on RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method

https://blainsmith.com/articles/rfc-10008-http-query-method/

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RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method - Blain Smith

Jun 17 at 7:54pmWeb
Show threadMike Taylor 🦕Jun 17
@blainsmith The only question is, why did it take 30 years to get this very very obvious and necessary thing.
Show threadDaemon SlayerJun 17
@mike Standards bodies only move slightly faster than government?
Show threadKraftwerk-Das Model CollapseJun 17
@blainsmith this one puzzled me, I was sure that I'd read up on GET a while ago and concluded that while unusual, you could send a body with it. Turns out that I remembered right - but also it's completely useless, which had escaped me 😅 I've now found this discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/a/983458
HTTP GET with request body

I'm developing a new RESTful webservice for our application. When doing a GET on certain entities, clients can request the contents of the entity. If they want to add some parameters (for example s...

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Show threadTanguy ⧓ Herrmann5d ago

@blainsmith I mean, you could send your parameters in the query part of the URL.
It breaks the format used everywhere else as instead of sending json, you send URL encoded values, but it works.

What's your opinion on this?

Show threadDaemon Slayer5d ago
@dolanor You can, but QUERY is made more for programmatic instances where payloads are more complex than just query params. GraphQL is the most immediate thing benefiting from this since that requires body data for fetching data from an API.
Show threadTanguy ⧓ Herrmann5d ago

@blainsmith true, that is great for GraphQL.

Well I guess I need to add that to my web framework.