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Re:Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021) by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday May 27, 2023 @08:12PM (#36099798)
GET with a body is pretty useless because the standard doesn’t allow the body to affect the results. So, proxies, browsers, etc. are free to ignore the body when caching results.
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Re:Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021) by Too on Sunday May 28, 2023 @03:23AM (#36101894)
Quick workaround: GET /search?key=$hash(body)
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Re:Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021) by ilyazub on Monday May 29, 2023 @07:50AM (#36113036)
Reminds me Google Maps: GET /search?pb=$protobuf_to_string.
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