Remdore
Posted on Sep 10
AI-assisted
The IETF published RFC 10008 back in June, and it adds a method to HTTP called QUERY. The short version is that it's a GET that's allowed to carry a body, so it's safe and idempotent like a GET, and it's cacheable, with the extra rule that whatever you put in the body has to end up in the cache key. The use case is the read whose parameters won't fit sensibly in a URL. Right now we all send those as POST and quietly accept that nothing downstream will ever cache them.
I've been curious whether any of the surrounding machinery is ready for it, so I spent a morning finding out. I wrote a search API that refuses every method except QUERY, put it on a small box in Frankfurt, and pointed ten language models at it to see whether they could produce a working client.
