Article:		When to Use Get?
Subject:		If true? You're kidding, right?
Date:		2002-04-28 20:27:34
From:		Mark Baker
Response to: If true? You're kidding, right?
I haven't found this at all. Perhaps it's how you design your resources. In general I'd say that if you frequently find your URIs are long, you're probably not doing something as well as you could be. MB

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• If true? You're kidding, right?
  2002-05-02 15:07:12 Yevgeniy Kaganovich [Reply]
  
  Interesting... I have a client application that sends a serialized Query object to the server so that the server can return a result set. Seems to me like a side-effect free operation...

  
  Also, even for only dealing with strings, the Java implementation of URL Encoding is utterly broken for i18n, so you must hack around it, which makes it a lot more painful to use GET than POST. http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-and-ident.html

  
  I think GET would be a lot more useful if it didn't depend on URL semantics.