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		fiddlerwoaroof on May 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021) GET with a body is pretty useless because the standard doesn’t allow the body to affect the results. So, proxies, browsers, etc. are free to ignore the body when caching results.

Too on May 28, 2023 [–]

Quick workaround: GET /search?key=$hash(body)

ilyazub on May 29, 2023 | [–]

Reminds me Google Maps: GET /search?pb=$protobuf_to_string.

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