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Are there still problems with GET requests not allowing very much data in the request? Will I have to send this as a POST, or is that all 200x?

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Are you talking about the size limit (of about 2000 chars) on url strings? That's not a GraphQL thing, that's a limit imposed by certain browsers. If your request data might be bigger then it needs to be in a POST.

> If your request data might be bigger then it needs to be in a POST.

Ok. I was hoping things had gotten better.

If you look at facebook's Relay implementation the graphql queries are indeed sent as POSTs.

https://github.com/facebook/relay/blob/master/src/network-la...

Interesting. I wonder how that plays with caching. Most caches ignore POST requests.

You don't want to use the browser's cache here. You can cache the properties in a more granular way yourself. Relay will do that for you.

Yeah, I guess I was thinking more about the server side.

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