Hi. Why I can’t request GET request with body?

# ktor

[rsktash]

Hi. Why I can’t request GET request with body?

[Big Chungus]

You can via generic http request builder, but this is going against REST conventions.

[Big Chungus]

All the input for get requests should be passed in via path or query params, so it's gettable from the browser

[christophsturm]

its not only against rest conventions, its against the http standard

[rsktash]

But other libs works with get request body

[Big Chungus]

Ktor can do it too. It just doesn't expose dsl for it as it's an antipattern

[christophsturm]

some http clients dont support it like okhttp or the javascript fetch api

[christophsturm]

“So, yes, you can send a body with GET, and no, it is never useful to do so.” https://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-request-body

[christophsturm]

i know some rest apis that define get requests with bodies, but it has always worked for me to send the fields as query parameters instead

[Joost Klitsie]

If there is too much data to be send out, it should be a POST

[Joost Klitsie]

Too much data-> If it doesn't fit in the URL anymore 🙂

[christophsturm]

if it changes state it should be a post or put.

[Big Chungus]

Don't forget that url queries support lists too. I find that to be the main blocker for ppl not knowing it.