RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method

RFC 10008 was published on June 15, 2026 and defines a new HTTP method: QUERY . It fills a gap that has existed for as long as I have been building APIs. You have data to send to the server in order to describe what you want back, but GET does not have a body and POST is neither safe nor idempotent. QUERY gives you a method that accepts a request body while remaining safe, idempotent, and…