Re: Request methods that allow an entity-body

This question pops up every few years.  Read this thread over;

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2002JulSep/thread.html#msg24

Mark.

On 11/29/07, Scott Nichol <snicholnews@scottnichol.com> wrote:
>
> Section 4.3 states
>
> <quote>
> The presence of a message-body in a request is signaled by the inclusion
> of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding header field in the request's
> message-headers. A message-body MUST NOT be included in a request if the
> specification of the request method (Section 5.1.1) does not allow
> sending an entity-body in requests.
> </quote>
>
> I do not see any place in the specification where it says that any
> request does not allow sending an entity-body.  I might guess that GET
> and HEAD do not allow an entity-body, but isn't the spec supposed to
> remove guesswork?  The spec would be better if, for each request method,
> it were stated whether or not an entity-body is allowed.
>
> Scott Nichol
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>
>


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