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by damncabbage 5019 days ago
I have an 8-foot toenail that needs a little clipping; what tool should I use?

More seriously, what needs an 8KB-long name?

(That bug post contains a few workarounds that'll let Drupal get back to GET for one of the listed cases. Drupal's case is particularly pathological as it's trying to be everything to everybody; it's like being a handsaw AND a sander AND a varnish for the floor AND a dessert topping.)

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A file storage service, ala dropbox, that allows you to select multiple files and download them as a zip. The concatenation of several uuids adds up quickly.
Good point. Unbounded requests (hundreds or more of ten-char IDs) are definitely candidates for a POST workaround. It's a shame, but necessary. :S

My main beef with Drupal is that it uses POST for everything, whether it's to /jobs/1234 or to /files/?id[]=1234&id[]=3452&...