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RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method
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this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2026
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While I like the goal of this, why not errata the existing spec to allow GET requests to have bodies? Would that be too much of a breaking change?
Adding stuff is easier than patching existing implementations is probably the reason why. Because up until this point, the webserver can just ignore the GET body request but if the client starts sending with body then who knows what bug might surface that turns into security vulnerability.