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piterrrotoday at 1:09 PM1 replyview on HN

> GET request with a body was heavily considered by the IETF working group, but it was ultimately rejected in favor of creating the new QUERY method. The decision to create a distinct method came down to historical interoperability issues and strict compliance with the core architectural definitions of HTTP.

I've been sending request body along GET method for years now


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huskyrtoday at 1:23 PM

Apparently some load balancers drop the body.

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