GET HTTP request payload

Question

I am designing an API and I wonder if it is fine to send a JSON payload on a GET request?

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Answer 1

Also see: HTTP GET with request body - for more detail on this.

The gist is: Yes you can, but you probably shouldn't for various reasons, including:

• You're likely ignoring HTTP spec recommendations (you probably want to POST)
• You may introduce caching issues
• This is not intuitive as far as REST APIs go