I'm developing a new RESTful webservice for our application.
When doing a GET on certain entities, clients can request the contents of the entity.If they want to add some parameters (for example sorting a list) they can add these parameters in the query string.
Alternatively I want people to be able to specify these parameters in the request body.HTTP/1.1 does not seem to explicitly forbid this. This will allow them to specify more information, might make it easier to specify complex XML requests.
My questions:
- Is this a good idea altogether?
- Will HTTP clients have issues with using request bodies within a GET request?