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

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> On Dec 14, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
>> Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>>> Does any currently released browse include the body when doing an 
>>>> XHR GET request? If a big majority of them currently drop the body, 
>>>> then it seems like it would help interoperability if the spec 
>>>> explicitly stated that the body should be dropped.
>>> Disagreed. Please do not try to standardize HTTP APIs that profile 
>>> what HTTP allows.
>>
>> XHR already disallows a lot of things that HTTP allows. Setting 
>> certain headers, cross site requests, etc. Why is this different?
>>
>>> Besides that, Björn already reported that both IE7 and FF happily 
>>> pass the body, as they should (IMHO).
>>
>> My reading of Björns email was that they did not drop it for HEAD, 
>> OPTIONS and EXAMPLE did not drop the entity body. In my testing IE, 
>> Firefox and Opera all dropped the entity body of GET requests.
> 
> Did you try Safari (or can you post the test case so I can try it?)

I did not try safari. You can try it here:

http://people.mozilla.com/~sicking/xhr_body.html

/ Jonas