Request Bodies in Get Requests

• OkHttp

  43 45,230 9.3 Kotlin

  Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

  

I’ve to build a cli HTTP client in Java and went with OkHttp [1], as it was widely used on Android. I’ve to add support for GET requests with a body but I wasn’t able to do it with OkHttp. The library was rather opinionated and you couldn’t add a body to a request body back then [2]. I was rather surprised, because I thought HTTP specs allowed it, while discouraging; so an HTTP library should allow this kind of usage. I went back to Apache HTTPComponents, while less fancy than OkHttp but also less opinionated, and was able to complete my client. Things may have changed, it was a few years ago.

[1] https://github.com/square/okhttp

[2] https://github.com/square/okhttp/issues/5803

[3] https://hc.apache.org/

• Elasticsearch

  91 67,531 10.0 Java

  Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine

  

This brings back memories. I once failed an interview because an interviewer asked me how an API could be implemented and I suggested that you could send a body with a GET request. My thinking at the time was that, even though unusual, Elasticsearch does this (2016: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/16024#issuec...) and it might be easier to cache than POST but I could tell that the interviewer wasn't happy with my reponse.

Glad that a QUERY method will be provided instead.

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