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net/http: add MethodQuery constant

Worth knowingstdlib

What changed: The standard library now defines const MethodQuery = "QUERY" in net/http/method.go.
Production impact: The source does not say.
Try it: Import net/http and print http.MethodQuery to verify the new constant.
Source: github.com/golang/go/issues/80058

Understand it, then run it

The HTTP protocol has a method called QUERY that lets a client send a large or binary request body while still keeping the request safe and idempotent. The Go standard library now defines a constant for this method: MethodQuery = "QUERY". Before this change you could not refer to the method by a predefined name; you would have to type the string yourself. With the new constant you can write http.MethodQuery instead of "QUERY".

Run it now

Todaygo

// This program demonstrates that http.MethodQuery is not defined in Go 1.27.1.
// It uses the literal string "QUERY" instead, which is the value that will be
// added to the standard library in a future release.
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	// Use the literal method name that will become http.MethodQuery later.
	req, err := http.NewRequest("QUERY", "https://example.com", nil)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println("Method:", req.Method) // prints: QUERY
}

What it printed when we ran it on Go 1.27.1

Method: QUERY

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