[qutebrowser] Perform search engine queries with HTTP POST

John Lane john at lane.uk.net
Thu May 4 20:00:04 CEST 2017


I use startpage.com as a search engine and it defaults to sending
queries as HTTP POST requests.

>From https://www.startpage.com/au/protect-privacy-qa.html#hmb

> Contrary to other search engines StartPage uses the so-called POST
method (instead of the GET method) to keep your search terms out of the
logs of webmasters of sites that you reach from our results. Search
terms tell a lot about what you are thinking, which is why this is a
privacy issue.

As far as I know, the search engine setting in QB is GET only:

    :set searchengines sp = https://startpage.com/do/search?query={}

That works (sending a GET), but is it possible to arrange search queries
using HTTP POST requests ?

I can raise this on GH if it's worth tracking as an issue, perhaps a
wishlist item ?




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