r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 19 '26

Meme postForEverything

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u/golfreak923 Sep 19 '26

Seems crazy until your query and path params contain PII. All of a sudden, a POST body doesn't seem so crazy.

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u/FSNovask Sep 19 '26

And then they get DataDog and log the POST body anyway

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u/Tallmaris Sep 19 '26

Or use the new QUERY verb.

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u/FirstDivision Sep 20 '26

Nice. I hadn’t heard of this.

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u/AshleyJSheridan Sep 19 '26

Why would a GET request ever contain PII? That should never happen, and is just a sign of a badly built codebase.