Today, I’ve been doing the gqlgen tutorial. During the tutorial, I found that a GraphQL server receives an HTTP POST request, even for queries.
After a minute, I understood that it makes sense because a GraphQL request may include a request body like variables. As shown in the hurl output below, we can query data from a GraphQL API via an HTTP POST request.
# in find_todos.hurlquery GetTodos($ids: [ID!]!) { todos(ids: $ids) { id text done }}variables { "ids": ["T48"]}$ hurl --verbose find_todos.hurl* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------* Executing entry 1** Cookie store:** Request:* POST http://localhost:8080/query** Request can be run with the following curl command:* curl --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"query":"query GetTodos($ids: [ID!]!) {\n todos(ids: $ids) {\n id\n text\n done\n }\n}","variables":{"ids":["T48"]}}' 'http://localhost:8080/query'*> POST /query HTTP/1.1> Host: localhost:8080> Accept: */*> Content-Type: application/json> User-Agent: hurl/7.1.0> Content-Length: 128>* Response: (received 75 bytes in 1 ms)*< HTTP/1.1 200 OK< Content-Type: application/json< Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:56:55 GMT< Content-Length: 75<*{ "data": { "todos": [ { "id": "T48", "text": "buy a cup of coffee", "done": false } ] }}
