Lina Fontaine
5 April 2024
Investigating Request Bodies' Use in RESTful GET Operations
Although GET requests with bodies are not expressly forbidden by the HTTP/1.1 standard, conventional RESTful practices advise against it because of issues with compatibility, caching, and the clarity of request semantics. This investigation explores the implications for RESTful web service architecture, as well as the technological possibilities and potential problems with HTTP clients.
