alt Hacker NewsWell, because it is more code. Current caching software caches by headers + query string. It now needs to be expaned to cache by body too.
It feels very pointless and there is no drawback of just using POST
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afavour • today at 2:01 PM
Is caching not the primary reason to use this over POST? You should never want to cache POST requests.
There is: your browser or other type of client does not know it can repeat a POST request if it fails, whereas a QUERY request can be freely repeated in case of errors.