Re: [Beacon] spec feedback + few suggestions

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Ilya Grigorik <igrigorik@google.com> wrote:
>> I can live with either solution here, but GET requests are the wrong
>> thing to use here per the HTTP spec. Per HTTP GET requests are not
>> supposed to have side effects, and we definitely expect server to have
>> side effects like logging the beacon.
>> Also, GET requests aren't supposed to have a request body IIRC.
>
>
> Point taken around side-effects, but there are specs, and then there is how
> these tools get used in the real world..

Yup. I completely agree. It still feels iffy to go against the HTTP
spec as a default behavior. But I totally agree that we should enable
GET-based beacons too.

/ Jonas

Received on Thursday, 7 November 2013 20:18:59 UTC