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 Göttingen Society for Scientific Data Processing - http://gwdg.de eXtensible Catalog - http://eXtensibleCatalog.org