| ▲ | ollien 6 hours ago | |||||||
I don't think it's an abuse, RFC9110 defines 414 as a response for "refusing to service the request because the target URI is longer than the server is willing to interpret". Since adding a query string involves only adding characters, this seems fine; there's no stipulation as far as I can tell that all pages a server hosts must adhere to the same length. I'd be curious if any well-known clients interpret it that way though, and make caching decisions based on it. As far as I know, they shouldn't. Obviously it's against the spirit of the thing, but I don't think it's wrong per-se. | ||||||||
| ▲ | lucketone 5 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
If the goal is to be misleading, but technically correct, it hits the bullseye | ||||||||
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