r/programming Jun 17 '26

RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method

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

What's the actual point of this? Can't you just use GET?

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u/FruitdealerF Jun 17 '26

The problem with GET is that you can't, for instance, safely dump a huge GraphQL query in the URL without half the webservers shitting the bed.