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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Why not just allow GETs to include a body though?

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 5 points 6 days ago

Backwards compatibility, it's never been valid to send a body with a GET, and software does enforce that (to varying levels)

It's easier to create a new verb with the wanted semantics, than to change an existing one.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

you can still send a body with a get, it's just up to the server to accept and parse it.

I suppose you could use a proxy like nginx or apache and rewrite the body to params, but that's not really what GETs are for.