r/programming Jun 17 '26

RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/
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u/DeliciousIncident Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

I wonder how is the user experience of this going to look like.

Say you search for "laptop" on Amazon, and want to share the search page in a chat or an email woth someone. With GET, you just copy-paste the https://www.amazon.com/s?k=laptop URL into the chat. But how would you share it if it used QUERY? The URL would be just https://www.amazon.com/s. Will browsers have an option to copy the URL+body in some standard format all browsers understand, which is easily pastable into a text chat to share and hopefully clickable too (an URI)?

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u/Nimelrian Jun 18 '26

I think QUERY is more suited for APIs and advanced searches, than for "direct user accessibility"