With the release of Cytoscape 3.6, commands can be accessed via POST. Making the python and R libraries use POST would provide a fix for #18 and the fairly regular occurrence of users running out of room in the GET URL.
r2cytoscape updated to use POST for all functions with potentially long URLs. See new repo in preparation for bioconductor submission: https://github.com/cytoscape/r2cytoscape
With the release of Cytoscape 3.6, commands can be accessed via POST. Making the python and R libraries use POST would provide a fix for #18 and the fairly regular occurrence of users running out of room in the GET URL.