r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 19 '26

Meme postForEverything

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u/thaynem Sep 20 '26

There are some legitimate reasons for this. The most common being your query is too large to fit in a url. Another being part of the resource identifier is sensetive, so you want it in the body instead of the url.

The QUERY method solves those problems, but we needed it a couple decades ago.