A great idea, I think, but I would not bet on soon...

On Friday, April 17, 2015, Péter Király <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> If you ever created a REST API, you might run into the problem,
> whether searching should be implemented via GET or POST methods. There
> are lots of debate around this supported by different theoretical
> considerations.
>
> Maybe these debates will be ceased soon, because last week Julian
> Reschke, Ashok Malhotra and James M. Snell submitted an RFC proposal
> "HTTP SEARCH Method" to Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for
> creating a new method, called "SEARCH" in HTTP 1.1. According to the
> proposal there will be an "Accept-Search" response header field as
> well to notify clients, that a given server supports the new method.
>
> An example:
>
> A SPARQL query:
>
>      SEARCH /contacts HTTP/1.1
>      Host: example.org
>      Content-Type: text/query
>      Accept: text/csv
>
>      select surname, givenname, email limit 10
>
> The full document is available here:
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-snell-search-method-00.txt
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
>
> --
> Péter Király
> software developer
>
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