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Re:I don’t have time for coding challenges by cameronh90 on Friday September 11, 2020 @10:50PM (#24449401)
For E2E encrypted APIs, one could well argue that worrying about HTTP verbs is just wasting time for no good reason. POST (consistently) lets you attach a body too.

Just using POST for everything is a pattern I've seen becoming more popular recently.

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Re:I don’t have time for coding challenges by chrisandchris on Saturday September 12, 2020 @05:35AM (#24451157)
No we can get into an endless argument whether verbs are abused or not...

IMHO, GET (as of today) gas the issue that it does not support a body. If I‘m executing a search (an idempodent action), how can I nicely pass a JSON object configuring the search? I‘ll just use POST for that... So then we‘re at the point where the url does not work anymore because we have a POST /findEmployee; POST /findContract; ... instead of GET /employee and GET /contract.

Maybe I‘m wrong here, but it doesn‘t like nice in my eyes using POST in that way.

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Re:I don’t have time for coding challenges by ulucs on Saturday September 12, 2020 @07:19AM (#24451619)
The JS API's I used to develop in used a mix of query strings (for exact matches) mixed with JSON (for more complicated queries) all in the url parameters
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