Re: [XHR] send doesn't explain what to do when method is GET

On 12/7/07, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> >> Is it conforming for a UA to drop the body for GET requests?
> >
> > Not as far as I can tell.
>
> I'd like to request that this be changed, then.  Otherwise you're effectively
> requiring UAs to rewrite their HTTP layers to support entity-bodies with GET
> requests (or switch to using different HTTP libraries, etc).

If you're using a library which doesn't support entity bodies on GET,
then that can only be because it special cases GET when it shouldn't.
Sounds like a bug to me.

Mark.
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Received on Friday, 7 December 2007 20:29:43 UTC