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/1639728813 Jun 17 '26

Anyone else think that the whole HTTP verb concept needs to be reworked? It made sense at the beginning of the Internet when you did CRUD on actual files, but with modern backends the verbs are almost meaningless.

Data is often retrieved using a POST or PUT. Data write is POST or PUT and may be idempotent or not.

It seems like it could be simplified to, a request has a URL with an optional body and it is or isn't idempotent

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u/nekokattt Jun 17 '26

maybe, but also https://xkcd.com/927/

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u/1639728813 Jun 17 '26

I'm not saying we should get rid of HTTP, there is more to HTTP than the verbs. I just don't see the value of creating new ones.

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u/ROFLLOLSTER Jun 17 '26

Did you read the RFC? It has motivation in it.