https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=angrybardsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:07:45 +0000GET with only a URI has the semantics of retrieving the current representation of the resource. This is the most basic form of hyperlinking and quite important to how the web works. Adding a body parameter to GET would break that constraints of the method as you couldn't treat two requests using the same URI as referencing the same thing.

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