'Is sending POST data with a GET request valid?

Using Curl for example, I can "post" data (send an entity-body) in a GET request. Is this a valid thing to do? With that I mean:

  • Is it not forbidden by any RFC specification?
  • Does someone out there use it with good reason?
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Solution 1:[1]

There is a "good reason" use case out there.

elasticsearch uses entity-body data in GET requests to try to use the GET verb as a read while also allowing a more complicated specification than url alone allows (easily).

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