- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 08:25:46 +0100
- To: "Hartford, Eric" <hartbeat@amazon.com>
- Cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2017-01-08 03:51, Hartford, Eric wrote: >> It would be helpful if you explained what you're looking for. A safe > method that allows a request body, so data doesn't need to be sent as > part of the URI? > > Yes, as in a RESTful API, GET method is used for the concept of entity > retrieval, and if the parameters of the retrieve query are complex > enough it is unwieldy to use the path or query parameters of the URI, > and it becomes more appropriate to use the content body of the request. > (Think database queries.) Yes I "can" just use a POST but conceptually > my operation is a retrieval and I would like to be able to use a GET for > a retrieval operation. This comes up every few months. I personally agree that we should do something about it. Latest effort was <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-search-method-00>. Best regards, Julian
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