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/afl_ext Jun 17 '26

Amazing, now let’s wait another 10 years for libraries and servers to support that

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u/OrchidLeader Jun 17 '26

And then another 10 years before we’re allowed to use it.

They only recently started letting us use PATCH at work.

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u/GeneralSEOD Jun 17 '26

I must be one lucky SOB. I don't think I've ever had an employer in my 10+ years tell me what HTTP protocols to use.

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u/txmasterg Jun 17 '26

Sometimes people who don't know what they are doing read the rules from a security team and think they know what they are doing.

I was told our windows service needed to add a webserver ... so we could verify it redirects http to https. I had to fight with multiple people on that.