Sending data with CURL GET

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I thought GET is not supposed to have a body. But in the context of elasticsearch, I keep seeing this kind of query (see here for instance):

curl -XGET localhost:9200/test/_msearch --data-binary @requests; echo

How is the binary data sent in this case? Can somebody explains what is going on and how this works? I first thought it was converted to a POST but, I put a proxy in front of Elasticsearch and saw that curl was really sending a GET. Though I could find the data neither in the header, nor in the parameter, nor in the body. So it seems like my proxy also got confused by this request.

But when I execute the request directly against elasticsearch, it works just fine. What gives?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:00:39Z

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GETs with bodies are allowed but not considered to be very "meaningful". You can see this question and answer for a full discussion. HTTP GET with request body

and this answer about your proxy: https://stackoverflow.com/a/978173/3516034

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