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		kortex on May 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The HTTP QUERY Method specification So? Just deal with it however one would deal with unruly POST requests, slow-walked multi-part, and other protocol abuse. No matter what, you need protection against bad actors trying to get the servers to do bad things.

preseinger on May 28, 2023 [–]

i'm not sure how malicious requests are relevant to this conversation

specifically, a URL can basically always be fully read and cached in memory in a server, a request body cannot

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