I am using SpringBoot... I can not use GET protocol and include a body, but I am not going to create or update anything on the server so I do not want to use POST or PUT, any other protocol that acts like a GET with body?

if you wonder what I need to send in that body it is an url parameter, like for example http://somewebsite.com/stuff/etc and I feel that putting this inside a request body is better than putting it as a requestparam

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I can not use GET protocol and include a body, but I am not going to create or update anything on the server so I do not want to use POST or PUT, any other protocol that acts like a GET with body?

Your best bet, where suitable, would be to mimic how HTML forms work; which is to say having a family of resources with identifiers that are filled in by the client (in general, via URI templates -- often via query parameters as would happen with an HTML form).

When that's not appropriate: as of 2022-11, your best bet is POST. It's not a great answer (in particular, general purpose HTTP components won't know that the semantics of the request are safe), but it is the best option available of the registered methods.

POST serves many useful purposes in HTTP, including the general purpose of " "this action isn’t worth standardizing." -- Roy Fielding, 2009

Eventually, the HTTPbis-wg will finalize the safe-method-with-a-body proposal, and at that point that will become a much better option than POST (for the cases that match the new semantics).