On Monday 28 January 2002 04:04 pm, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > In the future, this does call for a new GET-with-body or QUERY or > whatever you like to call it, which would be defined as an operation > without side effects (a function) of both the URI and the > message body. GET is (largely) defined that way in HTTP 1.1. The spec does not deny the body of a GET request. Also HTTP 1.0 allowed it, and HTTP 1.1 claims to be backwardly compatible. Some clarification of semantics *would* be nice to have though. > (I prefer QUERY to an adaptation of GET, myself). Shades of HTTP2... I prefer this too... though I wonder about the impact on proxies and firewalls.Received on Tuesday, 29 January 2002 04:43:18 GMT
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