Wait a minute, I forgot that tomorrow is a Weekend🥹🤗! 😐

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Bro acting though💪
Daycare: Man... 🤨What is wrong with you?🙄(Imagine she was a black American)

Complete EGO shatter 😂😂🤣

Doctors with out Engineers are 'Bahilawi Hakim'.

No hospital without Civil
No X-ray,no other tools with out Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Software engineers

And they say we save lives ha...🧐

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Now this is called real Machine Learning😎

We are officially LIVE! 🎉

Alhamdulillah, we’re excited to announce the launch of Weam (وئام), a platform designed to help local residents and visitors easily discover and explore the city.
Weam puts everything you need right at your fingertips.

Key Features:

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📌 Note: We are currently in beta testing and continuously improving.

Try it out today, leave your mark, and share the link with family and friends! 🚀

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Can You Perform a POST Operation Using a GET Request?🧐

Back when I was attending my 2nd year at A2SV, I was minding my own business when I overheard one of our mentors and his colleague talking about system design. His colleague had an upcoming system design interview and was preparing for it. Our mentor had already secured a full-time position at Bloomberg, so he was sharing some advice and helping him prepare.
Then I heard something that caught my attention.(Fast forward, they are both in Bloomberg now)
His friend asked:

“It’s possible to do a POST request using a GET request, right?”

I was like, wait what?😳 That question stuck with me.

How is that possible? And more importantly, why shouldn’t we do it?
That curiosity eventually led me to dig deeper into how HTTP actually works.

💻The Mechanics: How GET Can Act Like POST

At the wire level, an HTTP request is just a text block sent over a network socket. The server receives the text, reads the verb at the beginning, and decides how to parse the incoming data.

app.get("/create-user", (req, res) => { 
const { name, email } = req.query; 
// Insert into database

 createUser(name, email); res.json({ message: "User created" });
});

Now a client sends:

GET /create-user?name=Alex&email=alex@example.com HTTP/1.1
Host: api.example.com

The backend reads the query parameters:

req.query.name
req.query.email

and inserts them into the database.
So even though the HTTP request is:

GET /create-user

the operation performed by the application is a create operation.

Data via Query Parameters: A GET request can attach payloads directly into the URL query string. If a backend handler reads req.query and inserts those values into a database, a GET request has effectively performed a create operation (POST).

Payloads in GET Bodies: While unorthodox, the HTTP specification does not strictly forbid a body inside a GET request. If a server framework parses the body of a GET request and executes a data-altering query, it creates or updates records identical to a POST or PUT request.

🙅‍♀️Why You Should Avoid Using GET for POST Operations
While technically feasible, bending HTTP semantics creates severe architectural and security risks:

1️⃣URL Logging and Leakage: Query parameters are logged in plaintext across browser history, web server access logs, load balancers, and CDN networks. Passing sensitive creation payloads (passwords, PII, tokens) inside a GET URL exposes data to third-party loggers.

2️⃣Aggressive Caching: CDNs and browsers assume GET requests are idempotent and safe to cache. If a GET endpoint creates a database resource, edge servers might serve a cached response instead of hitting your backend, causing silent data failure.

3️⃣Pre-fetching and Crawlers: Search engine web crawlers and browser pre-fetching engines automatically follow GET links. If a GET request mutates state, a search crawler indexing your web app could unintentionally trigger database modifications or account deletions.

4️⃣Violation of Idempotency: According to RFC 9110, GET is defined as a safe method intended purely for retrieval without side effects. Breaking this contract leads to unpredictable behavior in distributed microservices and API gateways.

✍️prepared it using AI

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