HTTP QUERY Ratified as RFC 10008 The First New HTTP Method in Over 20 Years.
IETF Ratifies RFC 10008: 'HTTP QUERY' Becomes the First New Official HTTP Method in Over Two Keys The Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) has officially published RFC 10008 , formalizing the HTTP QUERY method as the 9th official command in the HTTP protocol suite. Architected to optimize data retrieval, the QUERY method operates similarly to a traditional GET request but introduces a critical structural shift: it allows complex query parameters to be encapsulated directly within the request body rather than appending them to the URL string, effectively eliminating URL length constraints. The official history of HTTP methods has remained remarkably conservative over the decades: 1997 (RFC 2068): The first official HTTP/1.1 specification defined 7 core methods : OPTIONS , GET , HEAD , POST , PUT , DELETE , and TRACE . 1999 (RFC 2616): The core suite expanded to 8 with the introduction of the CONNECT method. 2022 (RFC 9110): Despite comprehensive modernization overha...