> 2. GET makes sense here. If anything, it would be a PATCH. But it's silly to get bogged down in details.
Those "details" are quite important, as already explained in several other comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9523225
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9523106
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9523075
2. GET makes sense here. If anything, it would be a PATCH. But it's silly to get bogged down in details.