alt Hacker NewsThere's nothing holding you back implementing the QUERY method right now - HTTP methods are standardized, but not limited to the standard. Obsviously it depends how proxies/servers/etc. might handle uncommon methods.
There's nothing holding you back implementing the QUERY method right now - HTTP methods are standardized, but not limited to the standard. Obsviously it depends how proxies/servers/etc. might handle uncommon methods.
But that's the point, isn't it? Browsers, proxies and servers always assume POST isn't idempotent. When the user presses F5 the browser asks if they want to do the thing again. You can't prevent that without making it more complicated (e.g. send the request from JavaScript).