Thanks, IETF!
06/18/26, 6:53 PM
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The IETF has given me the best early birthday present I could ask for (published June 16th): RFC10008 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc10008)
I've always thought there should be an HTTP verb that's semantically the same as a GET, but has a body. That being, we send a body, but in a RESTful API pattern it doesn't create or mutate a resource (it's idempotent, so repeat requests won't change anything and should have the same response). It's even cache-able based on the path and request body!
Probably the best gift I could ever get is internet standards (especially HTTP) changing for the better.