IETF publishes QUERY method to allow safe and idempotent HTTP requests

When an HTTP request is too long or complex to be encoded in its URI using GET, developers have long resorted to using the POST method as a workaround. However, this can create issues; while GET requests are defined as safe and idempotent, POST does not necessarily share those characteristics. To combat the problem, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published a proposed standard HTTP request method, QUERY (RFC 10008), which bridges the two functions, taking the best of each.