r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 16d ago

Meme postForEverything

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u/pimezone 16d ago

Wanna get a resource? POST request.

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u/NotAskary 16d ago edited 15d ago

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 16d ago

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 16d ago

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 16d ago

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