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Envoy support HTTP Query Method (RFC 10008)

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#46,404 opened on Jul 27, 2026

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Title: Envoy support HTTP Query Method (RFC 10008)

Description: Currently, Envoy is not supporting HTTP Query Method and return 400 Bad Request. HTTP Query method has been released in June 2026. is there any timeline to start supporting this method?

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  1. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc10008

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Research direction
Explore how Envoy validates HTTP method names in its HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 codecs, focusing on where unsupported methods are rejected with 400, and understand the code paths that would need updating to support the QUERY method.
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cpp
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backendnetworking
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