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One of the small quality-of-life improvement specs I've been closely following for a bit now: httpwg.org/http-extensi... Sharing just cause I'm not sure how many folks have been paying attention to HTTP maybe getting a new verb soon 😍

Yes! 🎉🎉🎉 But I'm asking myself how many servers and proxies and reverse proxies will fail to deal with this. If it's even a small percent, it will impede the adoption of this (really important and how come it hasn't happened yet) specification.

We already have a path for that! When PUT/PATCH/DELETE were added nearly every server and proxy had no support. So most everything got updated to utilize the X-HTTP-METHOD-OVERRIDE header with a POST. This lets things attempt one mechanism and fallback to what is supported.