HTTP QUERY Is Here — And Your Infrastructure Isn't Ready For It In June 2026, the IETF...
HTTP QUERY Is Here — And Your Infrastructure Isn't Ready For It
In June 2026, the IETF published RFC 10008, standardizing a new HTTP method: QUERY. It's the first new standard HTTP method since PATCH in 2010, and it fixes a compromise developers have lived with for 16+ years: how do you send a large, structured, read-only request without abusing POST?
QUERY combines:
Safe — no state change on the server
Idempotent — repeat it, get the same result
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