The QUERY method is definitely the way to go. GET with a body is iffy. If you owned the entire stack it might be doable. But once you don't have control of the many http proxies and firewalls that a GET with a body has to travel then it becomes a problem. I think the RFC does not explicitly define the behavior of GET with a body. So, proxies or firewalls can just drop the message and be completely HTTP compliant.
Not passing judgement - you may have very well qualified your statement. But having dealt with the above issue some years back (as in being the person on the debugging run) I do sympathize with the unhappiness. :)
Not passing judgement - you may have very well qualified your statement. But having dealt with the above issue some years back (as in being the person on the debugging run) I do sympathize with the unhappiness. :)