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I am working on a web api and I am curios about the HTTP SEARCH verb and how you should use it.

My first approach was, well you could use it surely for a search. But asp.net WebApi doesn't support the SEARCH verb.

My question is basically, should I use SEARCH or is it not important?

PS: I found the SEARCH verb in fiddler2 from telerik.

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The HTTP protocol is defined by RFC documents. RFC2616 defines HTTP/1.1 the current release.

SEARCH is not documented as a verb in this document.

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AFAIK the SEARCH method is only a proposal and should not be used. Use GET instead.

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  • At the moment I am using GET, but I like the idea to bring for every common situation a verb. Commented Mar 21, 2014 at 10:56
  • @Knerd The problem is that most HTTP clients will not support the SEARCH method which kind of defeats the motivation of providing an API. Commented Mar 21, 2014 at 12:58
  • You are right. Hopefully it becomes a part of HTTP :) Commented Mar 21, 2014 at 13:01

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