[doc] adds the missing documentation of the server.method settings.

TL;DR; For all the issues that comes with HTTP POST I recommend instance
maintainers to switch to GET and lock the property in the preferences:

```yaml
server:
  method: GET

preferences:
  lock:
    - method
```

We don't want this in the defaults of the SearXNG distributions for the pros vs
cons listed in this discussion:

- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/3619
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.. _method:
``method`` : ``$SEARXNG_METHOD``
Whether to use ``GET`` or ``POST`` HTTP method when searching.
``method`` : ``GET`` | ``POST``
HTTP method. By defaults ``POST`` is used / The ``POST`` method has the
advantage with some WEB browsers that the history is not easy to read, but
there are also various disadvantages that sometimes **severely restrict the
ease of use for the end user** (e.g. back button to jump back to the previous
search page and drag & drop of search term to new tabs do not work as
expected .. and several more). We had a lot of long discussions about the
*pros v2 cons*:
- `set HTTP GET method by default
<https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/3619>`__
- `http methods GET & POST
<https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Asearxng%2Fsearxng+label%3A%22http+methods+GET+%26+POST%22>`__
.. _HTTP headers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers
``default_http_headers`` :
Set additional HTTP headers, see `#755 <https://github.com/searx/searx/issues/715>`__