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	▲	Joker_vD 6 hours ago
		`Unlike POST, however, the method is explicitly safe and idempotent, allowing functions like caching and automatic retries to operate.` Essentially, it's for things that are inherently safe/idempotent already (e.g. search or indeed, anything that you don't mind being retried) but require a lot of data passed in the request.