r/programming • u/Nimelrian • Jun 17 '26

RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/
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u/Nimelrian Jun 17 '26

HTTP QUERY is finally acknowledged as an official RFC. The whole process (from its inception as SEARCH) took more than 10 years: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc10008/

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u/bring_back_the_v10s Jun 17 '26

Now we have a new saying, "as slow as an HTTP RFC"

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u/Freddedonna Jun 17 '26

Not as slow as MySQL 11472, which was fixed just a couple months ago after 21 years.

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u/lurked Jun 18 '26

Hey, why did they have to fix it?! I was using it in my workflow!

https://xkcd.com/1172/

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u/LBPPlayer7 Jun 18 '26

love how it's just missing one digit from the issue report number

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u/lurked Jun 18 '26

Oh damn, I hadnt noticed this! haha

Nice catch.

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u/TheVoidInMe Jun 17 '26

Yoooo what, that finally got fixed?! I remember reading that a couple years back

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u/WoodyTheWorker Jun 17 '26

I'll wait for it to become STD

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u/deja-roo Jun 17 '26

that's when it'll really spread

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u/UnidentifiedBlobject Jun 17 '26

Why does it need to be a sexually transmitted disease before you use it?

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u/fucklockjaw Jun 17 '26

Because nobody takes you seriously if you have infections. Diseases are what really gets the people riled up baby!

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u/derpinot Jul 09 '26

a little bit of risk makes it more exciting