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Comment by layer8

17 hours ago

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.

Recommended supported length is at least 8k.

Of course I don't advocate oversize URLs. That's a point of RFC10008.

Let's say we build a service for image transformation or image information extraction. Get isn't practical. QUERY with image as body could be a valid usage, regardless of caching. It conveys information that request is idempotent and can be retried with no impact on data, contrary to POST. If your http client is configured to support this, it can potentially improve reliability.