--- title: The 16-Year Wait is Over: Meet the New HTTP QUERY Method description: The IETF published RFC 10008 in June 2026, standardizing a new HTTP QUERY method after 16 years since the last new HTTP method (PATCH). QUERY combines GET's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-16-year-wait-is-over-meet-the-new-http-query-method-lzuz1brs8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The 16-Year Wait is Over: Meet the New HTTP QUERY Method | daily.dev og:description: The IETF published RFC 10008 in June 2026, standardizing a new HTTP QUERY method after 16 years since the last new HTTP method (PATCH). QUERY combines GET's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-16-year-wait-is-over-meet-the-new-http-query-method-lzuz1brs8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LZUz1bRs8.png og:image:alt: The 16-Year Wait is Over: Meet the New HTTP QUERY Method 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. # The 16-Year Wait is Over: Meet the New HTTP QUERY Method **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 7 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The IETF published RFC 10008 in June 2026, standardizing a new HTTP QUERY method after 16 years since the last new HTTP method (PATCH). QUERY combines GET's safe, idempotent, cacheable semantics with POST's ability to carry a request body, solving long-standing problems with complex search queries that exceed URL length limits or break caching when using POST. The method is explicitly read-only, idempotent, and allows edge caches to key on the request body. The post also covers the security implications, detailing two web cache poisoning attack vectors: legacy proxies ignoring the request body in cache key calculation, and JSON duplicate-key desynchronization between cache and backend parsers. A practical Burp Suite guide for auditing QUERY endpoints is included, covering Repeater configuration, proxy rewriting for discovery, and Intruder fuzzing techniques. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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