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>Additionally, a lot of existing web servers by default ignore GET requests with a body.

I think the point made is that _all_ existing web servers have no idea what a "QUERY" is anyway, so changes need to be made anyhow.

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Not exactly. OPTIONS lets servers tell you that QUERY is supported if the client requests it and Status Code 405 lets servers tell you that QUERY is not supported. That's very different from the current landscape where several proxy servers and web servers simply ignore the Body of a GET request.

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