Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method

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Post by tercio » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 8:42 PM UTC

Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method
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Re: Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method

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Post by inglor » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 9:10 PM UTC

This is great. Note it is co-authored by James Snell who I know from Node.js core. He has been a very prolific member working on things like QUIC in Node and web APIs.

I can definitely see why this could benefit his work (at Cloudflare) a lot since it would enable caching of results currently done through POST queries.

Re: Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method

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Post by rajnathani » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 9:11 PM UTC

Related recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794838

Re: Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method

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Post by contravariant » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

Am I right in thinking that this is basically an alternative to URI query parameters? Presumably to make parsing the query and caching the results easier.

Re: Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

I’ve always used POST to do exactly what this specifies. Good show.

May take a while, before it is supported enough, in many APIs.

Re: Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method

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Post by divbzero » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 9:15 PM UTC

Is GET with a request body impractical at this point? It has historically been frowned upon [1] but is it really too late to change that convention?

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-req...

Re: Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method

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Post by laurent123456 » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 9:16 PM UTC

The spec doesn't say how browsers should represent such request in the browser address bar. The nice thing with GET is that you can copy a search url, bookmark it or share it with someone, and they get back the exact same results. How would that work with a QUERY method?

Re: Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 9:16 PM UTC

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Re: Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method

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Post by asplake » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 9:18 PM UTC

divbzero wrote: post #6

Is GET with a request body impractical at this point? It has historically been frowned upon [1] but is it really too late to change that convention? [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-req...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30129631

Re: Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method

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Post by zamadatix » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 9:18 PM UTC

contravariant wrote: post #4

Am I right in thinking that this is basically an alternative to URI query parameters? Presumably to make parsing the query and caching the results easier.

The introduction paints it exactly as such by example, along with avoiding some other limitations like parameter size and encoding overhead.