HACKER Q&A
📣 slowmotarget

What would you think of a new HTTP method named PREVIEW?


With the success of Open Graph, lots and lots of HTTP GET requests are sent every day to process only a few in the of HTML pages.

I believe that this process could be lightened by the adoption of a new HTTP verb. By sending an HTTP PREVIEW /mypage we could leverage caching and write optimized database queries to return a light, serialized response for crawlers and bots.


  👤 detaro Accepted Answer ✓
Why wouldn't this just be a new Content-Type to request?