You're ignoring such a huge part of the HTTP specification there, like request idempotency, caching, the security model, and surely stuff I'm forgetting right now.
HTTP, at its heart, is a way to compose an action from a verb and a noun - such as "get this", or "update that". The request method, or verb, is intertwined with the URI, or resource, the noun - together, they form the action the user agent intends to carry out. "GET /foo" is entirely distinct from "POST /foo", and there are lots of considerations why it has been implemented like that. I cannot recommend reading the spec (or letting ChatGPT summarise it for you) enough, it will really make more sense.
Having said all that, I know what situations you are referring to - say, issuing a PATCH request with an HTML form, or circumventing some redirect bug with a POST request. Still, all of those problems hint at some other, more general issue, and solving such inconvenience would come at the price of a completely broken HTTP specification. Protocols like email, or HTTP, have only been around for so long because they were designed elegantly and carefully. Let's not break that for convenience' sake :)
Believe me, I've read the spec as I've wound up implementing HTTP servers from scratch multiple times a couple decades ago.
None of this suggestion is about incorporating all of HTTP's functionality. It's just the situations that you say you know I'm referring to -- verbs, things like authorization headers, a POST payload.
Expanding the functionality of hyperlinks wouldn't break anything about HTTP. It would just allow more requests to be defined in a single line of text (a hyperlink), rather than requiring lines of JavaScript to define. The browser (or cURL or whatnot) would convert the link to the actual HTTP request. Zero changes to HTTP.
Well. Hyperlinks are part of the spec though, and if you modify them and expect clients to know how to deal with that, you’ll need to modify the specification, and that implies you need to define how those changes affect caching, Proxies, and the security model. There’s a pretty good reason you send credentials in a header, not the URL. What’s my browser supposed to show in the history?
What you’re looking for is a browser extension, not a haphazard URI change.
HTTP, at its heart, is a way to compose an action from a verb and a noun - such as "get this", or "update that". The request method, or verb, is intertwined with the URI, or resource, the noun - together, they form the action the user agent intends to carry out. "GET /foo" is entirely distinct from "POST /foo", and there are lots of considerations why it has been implemented like that. I cannot recommend reading the spec (or letting ChatGPT summarise it for you) enough, it will really make more sense.
Having said all that, I know what situations you are referring to - say, issuing a PATCH request with an HTML form, or circumventing some redirect bug with a POST request. Still, all of those problems hint at some other, more general issue, and solving such inconvenience would come at the price of a completely broken HTTP specification. Protocols like email, or HTTP, have only been around for so long because they were designed elegantly and carefully. Let's not break that for convenience' sake :)