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HTTP QUERY Method Standardized: Infrastructure Lags Behind
The IETF published RFC 10008 in June 2026, standardizing the QUERY HTTP method—the first new method since PATCH in 2010. QUERY is safe, idempotent, cacheable, and supports a request body, solving the problem of sending large read-only queries without abusing POST. However, CDNs, WAFs, and API gateways lack support, causing caching and security issues.
Meridian48 take
The spec is clean, but real-world adoption will be slow until major CDNs and security tools update their cache-key and method-allowlist logic.
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