safe method
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An HTTP method whose defined semantics request no state change on the server - reading, not writing.
RFC 9110's safe set is GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, and TRACE; RFC 10008 added QUERY in 2026. The designation is a registered promise about intent that caches, prefetchers, and crawlers act on mechanically - and it says nothing about the payload, so a safe method's body still deserves full security inspection.
Also known as: safe methods, safe HTTP method