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Re:RESTful APIs, the big lie by dozzie on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @04:35PM (#10044212)
Of course it is different. GET is meant to retrieve a specific resource. Search results are not a resource, they are computation result.

Also, how would you specify the query and search options? Mix those in query string portion? Or encode them? (And how?)

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Re:RESTful APIs, the big lie by coldtea on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @10:23AM (#10047827)
Also consider image search (e.g. what Google does). You'd base64 the image on the GET query string?
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