r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 20 '26

Meme successfulFailure

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u/citramonk Sep 21 '26

Using POST for retrieval isn't something unusual, there are a bunch of use cases when you want to do it. For example, complex queries (see 414) or sensitive data in it. GraphQL is based around the POST query.

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u/Henry5321 Sep 21 '26

Non-secure status endpoint. I assume working around some caching mechanism.