Re: Extension HTTP methods

Ian Hickson schrieb:
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> it's very hard for this group and the browser vendors to agree upon 
>>> behaviour. E.g. should an entity-body be passed with the verb? How 
>>> should the browser handle content negotiation?
>> Disagreement here. XHR implementations do not need any special knowledge 
>> about this. If a client supplies a request body, it should be sent. No 
>> problem here.
> 
> Wouldn't sending a body with a method that doesn't allow a body result in 
> allowing request smuggling?

Well, in only in a broken implementation. See 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.4.3>:

"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. A server SHOULD read and 
forward a message-body on any request; if the request method does not 
include defined semantics for an entity-body, then the message-body 
SHOULD be ignored when handling the request."


Best regards, Julian