HTTP QUERY Method: The Grey Zone Between GET And POST., (Fri, Sep 18th)

<p>If you've built APIs for any length of time, you've almost certainly hit this wall: you need to fetch data based on a complicated set of filters, but <code>GET</code> can't

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<p>Every <code>POST /search</code> endpoint you have ever written is a read pretending to be a write.</p> <p>You did not do it because you wanted to. You did it because the

On Friday, Xavier talked about the newly introduced HTTP Query method. This new method was introduced to allow "GET" requests that include a body. The main reason for this was

<blockquote> <p>The HTTP protocol has remained surprisingly stable for years.</p> <p>But now, there's a new method that every backend developer should know about:

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<p><em>One of API design's most familiar workarounds may finally have an expiration date.</em></p> <p>For years, API designers have quietly made the <strong>same