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HTTP QUERY method breaks real-world infrastructure in first live tests
A developer fired HTTP QUERY requests at ten production CDNs and proxies, finding half blocked the new method. CloudFront, Akamai, Google, Netlify, Bunny, and Vercel all rejected it, while nginx, HAProxy, Fastly, Cloudflare, and Fly.io forwarded it. One cache even served a cached response from one QUERY to a different QUERY, revealing a cache poisoning risk.
Meridian48 take
The RFC was published in June, but real-world support is a patchwork—and the smarter the layer, the more likely it breaks, which means developers should test before deploying.
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I sent HTTP QUERY through the real internet. The smarter the layer, the harder it broke. →
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