Re:Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021)
by adql on Saturday May 27, 2023 @07:07PM
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Might as well just say "ok now GET can have body" instead of all that noise
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Re:Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021)
by dragonwriter on Saturday May 27, 2023 @08:50PM
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Won’t retroactively change things that support GET to support GET-with-body. A new verb makes it much more likely that anything that supports the verb supports the desired semantics.
(Of course, you could instead bump the HTTP version for support of GET-with-body, but given how HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are defined in terms of HTTP/1.1, you’d need three new versions of HTTP for a change to core verb semantics. A new verb, again, is far simpler.)