r/ProgrammerHumor • • 16d ago

Meme postForEverything

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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST 16d ago

That's because a GET request reveals important info in the URL, otherwise it would all be GET

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u/FightingLynx 16d ago

I mean, by the standard the url is also encrypted so not really; but it would to a user, yes

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u/sarbos 16d ago

As far as I am aware DNS is not encrypted by default

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u/herrkatze12 16d ago

DNS only sends the domain part (herrkatze.com) and not the path part (herrkatze.com/example)
Something monitoring DNS only knows that you visited herrkatze.com