On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > [This is in response to "(COUCHDB-269) _list doesn't allow POST requests", > but I'm posting to the list as the issue seems to be broader than just the > _list URI pattern.] > > Using POST to fetch documents seems a bit weird — by REST principles that > should be a GET, shouldn't it?
Absolutely. We get this all the time. I'm happy to add GET with query string for multi-key fetches. > Is it the potential size of > the resulting URI? yes. practical limits mean that with long keys, there could be a hard limit of only a few keys in a GET request. There is nothing wrong with having GET and POST available. Patches welcome - there's a Jira ticket for this in there somewhere, maybe it even has a patch already... > (Is it kosher to pass a request body in a GET?) Afaik, this doesn't work in the real world. Would be nice if it did... -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
