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I don't like using the body. GET's are easily shareable, bookmarkeable, etc, (even editable by humans). etc. thans to query strings. I rather have a GET with better (shorter) serialization for parameters and a standarized max-length of 16k or something like that.

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They discuss this desire in the draft:

>A server MAY create or locate a resource that identifies the query operation for future use. If the server does so, the URI of the resource can be included in the Location header field of the response (see Section 10.2.2 of [HTTP]). This represents a claim that a client can send a GET request to the indicated URI to repeat the query operation just performed without resending the query parameters.

HTTP is used in many contexts where no human will see the request

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