How to send data in request body with a GET when using jQuery ajax

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The service API I am consuming has a given GET method that requires the data be sent in the body of the request     The data required in the body is a list of id s separated by hypen and could potentially be very large and thus it must be sent in the body otherwise it will likely foobar somewhere in the browsers proxies webservers etc chain  Note I don t have control over the service or API so please don t make suggestions to change it   I am using the following jQuery code however observing the request response in fiddler I can see that the  data  I am sending is ALWAYS converted and appended to the query string despite me setting the  processData  option to false       ajax      url   htttp   api com entity list  body       type   GET      data   id1-id2-id3      contentType   text plain      dataType   json      processData  false     avoid the data being parsed to query string params    success  onSuccess     error  onError       Anyone know how I can force the  data  value to be sent in the body of the request   Any assistance is appreciated  thanks in advance

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You can send your data like the  POST  request through the  HEADERS    Something like this     ajax      url   htttp   api com entity list  body       type   GET      headers    id1  1   id2  2   id3  3      data         contentType   text plain      dataType   json      success  onSuccess     error  onError

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Just in case somebody ist still coming along this question   There is a body query object in any request  You do not need to parse it yourself   E g  if you want to send an accessToken from a client with GET  you could do it like this    x000D   x000D  const request   require  superagent    x000D   x000D  request get  http   localhost 3000 download accessToken   accessToken    end  err  res    gt    x000D    if  err  throw new Error err   x000D    console log res   x000D      x000D   x000D   x000D    The server request object then looks like  request        query    accessToken  abcfed

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we all know generally that for sending the data according to the http standards we generally use POST request  But if you really want to use Get for sending the data in your scenario  I would suggest you to use the query-string or query-parameters   1 GET use of Query string as    url  admin recordings some id   here the some id is mendatory parameter to send and can be used and req params some id at  server side   2 GET use of query string as  url  admin recordings durationExact 34 amp isFavourite true  here the durationExact  isFavourite is optional strings to send and can be used and req query durationExact  and req query isFavourite at server side   3 GET Sending arrays   url  admin recordings sessions  os  Windows   Linux   Macintosh    and you can access those array values at server side like this   let osValues   JSON parse req query os           if osValues length  gt  0                        for  let i 0  i lt osValues length  i                                  console log osValues i                     do whatever you want to do here

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In general  that s not how systems use GET requests  So  it will be hard to get your libraries to play along  In fact  the spec says that  If the request method is a case-sensitive match for GET or HEAD act as if data is null   So  I think you are out of luck unless the browser you are using doesn t respect that part of the spec   You can probably setup an endpoint on your own server for a POST ajax request  then redirect that in your server code to a GET request with a body   If you aren t absolutely tied to GET requests with the body being the data  you have two options   POST with data  This is probably what you want  If you are passing data along  that probably means you are modifying some model or performing some action on the server  These types of actions are typically done with POST requests   GET with query string data  You can convert your data to query string parameters and pass them along to the server that way   url   somesite com models thing ids 1 2 3

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