Re: Issue: request bodies

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 
> [ from the big comment e-mail; raising as a separate issue, as requested ]
> 
> The current draft says that:
> "If the method is POST or PUT, then the data passed to the send() method 
> must be used for the entity body."
> 
> This doesn't account for other request methods that may have a request 
> body, e.g., PROPPATCH.  Suggested text:
> 
> "Any data passed to the send() method MUST be used in the entity body. 
> If data is passed to send() when it is known to be incorrect (e.g., in 
> GET, HEAD, and DELETE requests), implementations MUST raise an error."

Hm. Why would it be illegal (from a protocol point of view) to have 
request bodies in GET, HEAD or DELETE?

Best regards, Julian