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Re:Limitations of the GET method in HTTP by serve_yay on Monday March 02, 2015 @05:53PM (#9134922)
Does that actually work in practice? Will the body make it through various opinionated routers, WAFs, etc? (I have no idea, but if not, it doesn't matter.)
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Re:Limitations of the GET method in HTTP by voidlogic on Monday March 02, 2015 @07:31PM (#9135405)
It often does, and if not, the above approach is to inform your client of the failure so it can switch to using POST or whatever else is best.

Edit: As I mentioned on another follow up, you may need to vary on your checksum header to play nice with proxy caches, etc. Or mark your responses as uncachable.

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