HTTP Finally Gets a QUERY Method (RFC 10008) — 25 Years of POST-for-Search Is Over
For 25 years, developers used POST for read-only search queries and everyone quietly agreed to pretend that was fine. RFC 10008 changed that in June 2026 with a new HTTP method called QUERY — safe, idempotent, cacheable, and able to carry a body. Here is the plain-English breakdown of what it is and why it actually matters.