From 6c940656ca5ec5a004d402ffd2fcd9a148bd71b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Yatskov <alex@foosoft.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 11:10:12 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] GET unless POSTing data

---
 ext/bg/js/ankiweb.js | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ext/bg/js/ankiweb.js b/ext/bg/js/ankiweb.js
index dc6a5d49..6a45b9c5 100644
--- a/ext/bg/js/ankiweb.js
+++ b/ext/bg/js/ankiweb.js
@@ -155,9 +155,14 @@ class AnkiWeb {
             const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
             xhr.addEventListener('error', () => reject('failed to execute network request'));
             xhr.addEventListener('load', () => resolve(xhr.responseText));
-            xhr.open('POST', url);
-            xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
-            xhr.send(dataEnc);
+            if (dataEnc) {
+                xhr.open('POST', url);
+                xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
+                xhr.send(dataEnc);
+            } else {
+                xhr.open('GET', url);
+                xhr.send();
+            }
         });
     }
 }