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7/4/2026

The user wants me to rewrite a headline about HTTP getting a new request method called QUERY.
Original: HTTP Just Got Its First New Request Method in Years — Meet QUERY
Short summary
RFC 10008 standardizes QUERY, a new HTTP method combining GET's safety and cacheability with POST's request-body mechanics, solving decades-old API query design challenges. Semantically transparent to proxies and caches, it supports arbitrary query languages via Content-Type negotiation and Accept-Query headers. Adoption will be gradual but represents a genuine improvement to HTTP's data-retrieval semantics.
- •RFC 10008 introduces QUERY: a new HTTP method that carries request bodies safely like POST but is cached and retried like GET
- •Eliminates the false choice between GET (size/encoding limits) and POST (ambiguous semantics) for complex queries
- •Requires CDNs and reverse proxies to normalize request bodies for cache keys; Accept-Query header lets clients discover supported query languages
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