Tim Bray @timbray@cosocial.ca
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HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body.

ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf

(Doesn’t have an RFC number yet but has been approved, will get one in a few weeks.)

The HTTP QUERY Method

This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that processing. This is similar to POST requests but can be automatically repeated or restarted without concern for partial state changes.

www.ietf.org

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Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭 @seav@en.osm.town
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RE: cosocial.ca/@timbray/115584190

Oh nice! This is probably the biggest change to the core message format of since HTTP/1.1 was released in 1997!

This new QUERY method would've been really useful for designing better REST APIs that otherwise relied on POST requests too much.

Also I wonder how many web browsers, servers, and middlemen devices already support this?

Lastly, the article needs to be updated: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP

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