Gary Illyes from Google said Google Search will yet support the caller HTTP QUERY method. He said arsenic the "ecosystem catches up" Google will past support the HTTP QUERY method.
A QUERY requests that the petition target process the enclosed contented successful a safe and idempotent mode and past respond pinch the consequence of that processing. This is akin to POST requests, but QUERY requests tin beryllium automatically repeated aliases restarted without interest for partial authorities changes, via RFC Editor.
Gary shared this accusation connected LinkedIn wherever he said that HTTP QUERY method is conscionable a much businesslike method for pages specified arsenic faceted navigation and dense hunt filters.
Gary wrote:
HTTP has a caller method called QUERY.We mostly prime betwixt 2 trade-offs erstwhile processing for the internets:
- usage GET, which packs each parameter into the URL string. It is safe and cacheable, but URLs break erstwhile hunt filters turn complex, aliases - usage POST, which accepts a petition assemblage of immoderate size, but intermediaries do not cache it by default.
QUERY combines the missing pieces. It is safe, idempotent (which is simply a connection I learned from Martin but person nary thought what it means), and cacheable for illustration GET, while sending a system payload assemblage for illustration POST.
Why care? Because faceted navigation and dense hunt filters, that's why. Instead of generating ridiculous query strings aliases utilizing disfigured POST routes that break edge/CDN caching and sometimes crawlability, servers tin process rich | select payloads cleanly.
He added that "widespread take will return time." "Web servers, CDNs, reverse proxies, and browsers must update their networking stacks first complete the adjacent mates of years. Even HTML has to get an update first, not to mention CORS," he added.
He yet said support will travel to Google Search. "Yes, Google Search will support it yet arsenic the ecosystem catches up," he wrote. "Till then, support your regular URLs tidy," he added.
Forum chat astatine LinkedIn.
