Today I learned that there’s a new method, or “verb” coming to the HTTP protocol. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published RFC 10008 in June 2026, which adds what is best described as a mix of GET and POST without the compromises.
The QUERY method will allow you to make a request from an HTTP server, but with content in the body of the request, which GET does not support.
There are a ton of benefits to this verb, the one I’m probably the most happy about is being able to take items out of the URL querystring that could contain sensitive information or personally identifiable information (PII). This will reduce the amount of this data that gets leaked out through log files.
You can read the IETF’s RFC here:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008
If you’re a Laravel developer, release 13.19 of the framework includes support for the new method. Read “HTTP Query Method Support in Laravel 13.19” for more about that.