RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

Re:RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method by jagged-chisel on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:49AM (#48569746)

Idempotency is an important attribute for correctness. Yep, you can document that POSTing to $ENDPOINT is idempotent, but you can't communicate that to caching layers throughout the network. QUERY, by definition, is idempotent and cacheable.

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Re:RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method by resters on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @12:15PM (#48572572)

Great point. I wish more people realized that intuitively.

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Re:RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method by jnewton_dev on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:02AM (#48569907)

Does anyone know if this approach works at significantly larger scales? Curious about where it breaks down.

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Re:RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method by inigyou on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @10:06AM (#48570769)

Larger scales like what? I expect that everywhere you currently cache GETs you can cache QUERYs. But does caching GETs work at scale?

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