alt Hacker NewsI can’t wait for QUERY to become an official RFC.
It's felt quite awkward to tiptoe around the existing spec when building features that retrieve data; we've had to either use POST to keep sensitive filter criteria out of http logs or just create a usually massive URL-encoded query string.
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resonious • today at 3:32 AM
Very timely as I just recently ended up with a URL query string so big that CloudFront rejected the request before it even hit my server.. Ended up switching that endpoint to POST. Would've liked QUERY for that!
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carlosneves • today at 11:33 AM
And oftentimes some endpoints simply hit the max URL length limit and need a proper body. I thought we ought to already be using this method. Seems quite fitting for fulfilling GETs with bodies.
There's nothing holding you back implementing the QUERY method right now - HTTP methods are standardized, but not limited to the standard. Obsviously it depends how proxies/servers/etc. might handle uncommon methods.