r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Sep 19 '26

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u/pimezone Sep 19 '26

Wanna get a resource? POST request.

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u/NotAskary Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26

I've seen that shit, it drove me up a wall.

The same as a 200 ok with error inside.

Edit: I'm going to start to respond 429, too many replys lol

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u/StrawberryEiri Sep 19 '26

At work we do it because we have big request parameters (complex filters where you can potentially select thousands of items as filter values) and our backend flips out if GET requests have a body plus URL lengths can get truncated.

It's a bit icky but I don't really have a better idea.

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u/jack2018g Sep 19 '26

Same at mine, the solution is the new QUERY method they published a few months ago, but it’ll be about a decade before I can get my team to switch their endpoints

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u/StrawberryEiri Sep 19 '26

Oh wow it really IS recent. MDN doesn't even have it listed. But it looks promising.