[100ms]

Forms, HTTP implementations, public API surfaces, and all for what exactly. Introducing a new verb for this feels profoundly misplaced

[jagged-chisel]

Idempotency is an important attribute for correctness. Yep, you can document that POSTing to $ENDPOINT is idempotent, but you can't communicate that to caching layers throughout the network. QUERY, by definition, is idempotent and cacheable.

[resters]

Great point. I wish more people realized that intuitively.

[alpinisme]

At least support - or lack thereof - for a new verb is unambiguous (compared to changing the semantics of GET)