diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ec66067d..06b7a0cc 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ tmp/
 local.properties
 .settings/
 .loadpath
+.DS_Store
 
 # Eclipse Core
 .project
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b3e7535b..72600d66 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
         <vault.password>admin</vault.password>
         <core.wcm.components.version>2.10.0</core.wcm.components.version>
         <core.cif.components.version>1.5.0</core.cif.components.version>
-        <graphql.client.version>1.6.1</graphql.client.version>
+        <graphql.client.version>1.7.0</graphql.client.version>
         <magento.graphql.version>6.0.0-magento235</magento.graphql.version>
         <bnd.version>5.1.2</bnd.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
diff --git a/ui.frontend/src/main/components/App/App.js b/ui.frontend/src/main/components/App/App.js
index d190548f..dd5b2559 100644
--- a/ui.frontend/src/main/components/App/App.js
+++ b/ui.frontend/src/main/components/App/App.js
@@ -35,12 +35,15 @@ import partialConfig from './config';
 import '../../site/main.scss';
 
 const App = () => {
-    const { storeView, graphqlEndpoint } = document.querySelector('body').dataset;
+    const { storeView, graphqlEndpoint, graphqlMethod } = document.querySelector('body').dataset;
     const { mountingPoints, pagePaths } = partialConfig;
     const config = {
         ...partialConfig,
         storeView,
-        graphqlEndpoint
+        graphqlEndpoint,
+        // Can be GET or POST. When selecting GET, this applies to cache-able GraphQL query requests only. Mutations
+        // will always be executed as POST requests.
+        graphqlMethod
     };
 
     return (