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Re:People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company by teddyh on Friday December 22, 2023 @01:20PM (#38736902)
> Since GET requests aren't suppose to have `body` data, if you have any hope of passing information along to a GET request, you must encode it in the URL in some way.

Or in the request headers.

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Re:People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company by no_wizard on Friday December 22, 2023 @01:22PM (#38736920)
To be clear, I misspoke, I should have put effectively GET requests really can't have body data. Headers have the same problem. You can't possibly encode it without encoding it in the URL anyway
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