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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 > > Göttingen Society for Scientific Data Processing - http://gwdg.de > eXtensible Catalog - http://eXtensibleCatalog.org > -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com