> *One advantage of GET is I can just copy the URL and share it.* Often but not ...

		BugsJustFindMe on May 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021) > One advantage of GET is I can just copy the URL and share it. Often but not always. The article is wrong when it says message bodies for GET are defined to be meaningless. They are in fact just not defined to be meaningful, which is very much not the same thing. Nothing in the spec for GET blocks using message bodies with it. Elastic search famously uses(used?) bodies with GET requests.

unless you control every hop between client and server, GET bodies can be arbitrarily dropped, and can't be relied upon