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12 years ago I asked on Stack Overflow: Are HTTP GET requests allowed to have request bodies? . This got a 2626 upvotes and a whopping 1.6 million views, so clearly it’s something lots of people are still curious about, and in some cases disagree with the accepted answer.
Today Dropbox announced in a blogpost titled “Limitations of the GET method in HTTP” that it will start allowing POST requests for APIs that would otherwise only be accessible using GET .
I just came across an interesting post via Hacker News , from an author of several hundred NPM packages (some of which quite popular) that just removed all of his packages from NPM.