Announcing the GraphQL over HTTP specification
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Blog Announcing the GraphQL over HTTP specification announcements Announcing the GraphQL over HTTP specification GraphQL TSC November 12, 2026 Since the initial release of GraphQL in 2015 , the GraphQL specification has always been transport agnostic. Most of the GraphQL specification is about “services”, taking “requests” in, executing them, and producing “responses”. How those requests and responses are sent and received is up to the implementer. This is generally useful. You can use GraphQL on your local machine, over raw TCP,