topic Token bloat in ArcGIS Online Developers Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-developers-questions/token-bloat/m-p/639568#M775 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>When you make calls to ArcGIS Online (and ArcGIS Server) you have to pass a token as a URL argument.&nbsp; The problem with that is that tokens are large.&nbsp; That is a problem because there is a magic size past which HTTP GET operations have to be converted to HTTP POST in order to avoid size limitations.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I was reading the following:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="https://bugsnag.com/docs/api">https://bugsnag.com/docs/api</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The thing that is interesting here is the ability to put the token in the authorization header.&nbsp; I am thinking that if ArcGIS * supported this then it would be more efficient because HTTP GET operations can be cached, i.e. more performant.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 21 Sep 2013 10:58:31 GMT RichardWatson 2013-09-21T10:58:31Z Token bloat https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-developers-questions/token-bloat/m-p/639568#M775 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>When you make calls to ArcGIS Online (and ArcGIS Server) you have to pass a token as a URL argument.&nbsp; The problem with that is that tokens are large.&nbsp; That is a problem because there is a magic size past which HTTP GET operations have to be converted to HTTP POST in order to avoid size limitations.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I was reading the following:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="https://bugsnag.com/docs/api">https://bugsnag.com/docs/api</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The thing that is interesting here is the ability to put the token in the authorization header.&nbsp; I am thinking that if ArcGIS * supported this then it would be more efficient because HTTP GET operations can be cached, i.e. more performant.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 21 Sep 2013 10:58:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-developers-questions/token-bloat/m-p/639568#M775 RichardWatson 2013-09-21T10:58:31Z