--- title: HTTP QUERY Method Explained: RFC 10008, Ecosystem... description: RFC 10008 standardizes the HTTP QUERY method, filling a long-standing gap between GET (safe, idempotent, cacheable but URI-length-limited) and POST... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/http-query-method-explained-rfc-10008-ecosystem-adoption-and-a-quarkus-implementation-iqcfhcwxt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: HTTP QUERY Method Explained: RFC 10008, Ecosystem Adoption, and a Quarkus Implementation | daily.dev og:description: RFC 10008 standardizes the HTTP QUERY method, filling a long-standing gap between GET (safe, idempotent, cacheable but URI-length-limited) and POST... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/http-query-method-explained-rfc-10008-ecosystem-adoption-and-a-quarkus-implementation-iqcfhcwxt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/IQcFHCWxt.png og:image:alt: HTTP QUERY Method Explained: RFC 10008, Ecosystem Adoption, and a Quarkus Implementation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # HTTP QUERY Method Explained: RFC 10008, Ecosystem Adoption, and a Quarkus Implementation **[Foojay.io](https://daily.dev/sources/foojayio)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary RFC 10008 standardizes the HTTP QUERY method, filling a long-standing gap between GET (safe, idempotent, cacheable but URI-length-limited) and POST (body-carrying but neither safe nor idempotent). QUERY carries a request body like POST but is defined as safe and idempotent like GET, with explicit cacheability keyed on both URI and body content. The RFC also introduces the Accept-Query header for capability discovery and the Location header for equivalent-resource linking. Ecosystem adoption is uneven: Apache Tomcat 12 merged support in July 2026, Jetty has an open PR targeting version 13, and Jakarta Servlet has an open issue. Spring MVC/WebFlux lacks a RequestMethod.QUERY and a fix is targeted for Spring Framework 7.1 in November 2026. Quarkus can implement QUERY today without framework changes by using Jakarta REST's @HttpMethod meta-annotation on top of its Netty/Vert.x HTTP layer, which treats the method as an arbitrary token. A demo project shows two media-type variants, proper 415/422 error codes, Accept-Query and Location response headers, ETag-based conditional requests, and OPTIONS-based discovery. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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