[GH-ISSUE #1065] Add support for HTTP get method with request body #373

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opened 2026-03-16 14:56:49 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

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Originally created by @btpka3 on GitHub (Aug 10, 2020).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/1065

There some applications using HTTP get request with request body , such as elasticSearch Request Body Search

Please discuss to support this case or not. Postwoman at now is not support GET request with HTTP request body.

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stackoverflow: HTTP GET with request body
stackoverflow: Is this statement correct? HTTP GET method always has no message body

Originally created by @btpka3 on GitHub (Aug 10, 2020). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/1065 There some applications using HTTP get request with request body , such as elasticSearch [Request Body Search](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.9/search-request-body.html) Please discuss to support this case or not. Postwoman at now is not support GET request with HTTP request body. reference - stackoverflow: [HTTP GET with request body](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-request-body) - stackoverflow: [Is this statement correct? HTTP GET method always has no message body](https://stackoverflow.com/a/15656853/533317)

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@liyasthomas commented on GitHub (Aug 10, 2020):

We're using Axios for request transactions and I guess that's not possible with Axios. see https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/2400

And as mentioned in elasticSearch Request Body Search, we can use query parameters with GET request to send data as parameters. Kindly use Parameters section for that.

@liyasthomas commented on GitHub (Aug 10, 2020): We're using Axios for request transactions and I guess that's not possible with Axios. see https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/2400 And as mentioned in elasticSearch [Request Body Search](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.9/search-request-body.html), we can use query parameters with `GET` request to send data as parameters. Kindly use Parameters section for that.

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2026-03-16 14:57:10 +03:00

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@AndrewBastin commented on GitHub (Aug 10, 2020):

Well, we could implement it if needed. But it is not a supported behavior according to the HTTP spec. So we don't really want to support it in this app as well.

Here is the spec reference defining that https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#page-24

@AndrewBastin commented on GitHub (Aug 10, 2020): Well, we could implement it if needed. But it is not a supported behavior according to the HTTP spec. So we don't really want to support it in this app as well. Here is the spec reference defining that [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#page-24](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#page-24)