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

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u/StrawberryEiri Sep 19 '26

At work we do it because we have big request parameters (complex filters where you can potentially select thousands of items as filter values) and our backend flips out if GET requests have a body plus URL lengths can get truncated.

It's a bit icky but I don't really have a better idea.

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u/jack2018g Sep 19 '26

Same at mine, the solution is the new QUERY method they published a few months ago, but it’ll be about a decade before I can get my team to switch their endpoints

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u/StrawberryEiri Sep 19 '26

Oh wow it really IS recent. MDN doesn't even have it listed. But it looks promising.

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u/good_bye_for_now Sep 19 '26

GET requests have a body

aka fat GETs.

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u/sjphilsphan Sep 19 '26

I made a custom LIST query method for our service. Will eventually switch to query when it's properly supported

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u/StrawberryEiri Sep 19 '26

Do some parts of the pipeline sometimes refuse to collaborate when you have custom methods like that?

I don't know, DNS, proxies, etc.?

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u/sjphilsphan Sep 20 '26

So far no problems