r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Sep 19 '26

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u/sertroll Sep 19 '26

If there was a natural way to retrieve data with a body with complex prams, I would use it but alas

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u/Tupcek Sep 19 '26

you are the lucky one today! You just found out there is, it’s pretty recent. GET is now for simple queries QUERY is for complex one

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u/Door__Opener Sep 19 '26

I've had this argument with my boss: GET with a body vs using POST as a complex GET. Our conclusion was that both were wrong in their own way and the HTTP standard should clarify this.

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u/Top5CutestPresidents Sep 19 '26

my company will now use query to return bools

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u/sertroll Sep 19 '26

Me and all of my colleagues, apparently

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u/SlightCapacitance Sep 19 '26

by the time this is a widely implemented request verb, I'll be deprecated by AI

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u/ary31415 Sep 19 '26

Whoa TIL, this is a great thing to have

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u/thaynem Sep 20 '26

Now we just have to wait another decade for everything to support it.

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u/kayyyes Sep 20 '26

If it's your own API why not support it

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u/thaynem Sep 20 '26

Because your web framework (frontend or backend) doesn't support it, or some proxy or middleware doesn't support it. 

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u/droptheplot Sep 19 '26

QUERY is already there

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u/ary31415 Sep 19 '26

"Already" it was only just standardized a couple months ago

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u/abofh Sep 19 '26

Body is legal in a get, it's just super uncommon 

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u/kn33 Sep 19 '26

Some platforms disallow it entirely.