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Re:Microsoft REST API Guidelines by littlestymaar on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:45AM (#21620075)
This is the point made in the SO answer I quoted, and this was the official position of the rfc2616[1], but as I said in my second edit, this rule was relaxed in the new version of the specification: rfc7231 published in 2014.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-9.3 [2]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.1

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Re:Microsoft REST API Guidelines by paulddraper on Sunday November 24, 2019 @08:56PM (#21624871)
It looks more or less equivalent the situation previous.

> A payload within a GET request message has no defined semantics

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Re:Microsoft REST API Guidelines by littlestymaar on Sunday November 24, 2019 @09:15PM (#21624932)
It went from

> The GET method means retrieve whatever information (in the form of an entity) is identified by the Request-URI.

To :

> A payload within a GET request message has no defined semantics

Which, to me, sounds like: “it was forbidden to put info in the body, and now it's just not especially encouraged”. But maybe I'm over thinking the whole thing.

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