What is the best way to design a HTTP request when somewhat complex parameters are needed?

Question

I have some web services that I am writing and I am trying to be as RESTful as possible. I am hosting these web services using a HTTPHandler running inside of IIS/ASP.NET/S

Answer 1

If the query is too big to go in the URI, turn your query into a resource (like a saved search). I worked on a restful API for a hotel's booking system; the search query had too many params (preferences, rooming list...etc) so I turned it into a resource that I POST to the server. The server then replies with a URI uniquely identifing the search which body is the posted query + its results:

POST http://hotels.xyz/searches
body ...

Response

201 Created - Location: http://hotels.xyz/searches/someID
Body ......