Comment by cryptonym
13 hours ago
Sure you can provide an image as request body, but you could already do it with b64 query parameter. If you try hard enough, you can poorly use any proposed standard. GET with query parameters already is opaque and makes cache busting trivial.
Query parameters are length-limited, because HTTP URIs are: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9110/#section-4.1-5. There is no expectation for arbitrarily long HTTP URLs to be functioning.
Your link doesn't say URIs are length-limited
I'm guessing you never hit this issue then, but it's a real issue. Whether or not it's in the RFC as a hard limit it doesn't matter, no HTTP server will allow unlimited sized URIs.
You simply can't base64 large payloads and you're stuck with workarounds.
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They are in the sense that the recommended supported length is only 8000 bytes. There are no such specified length recommendations for HTTP body size.