- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:49:00 -0700
- To: "'Kim Horne'" <kim@pookzilla.com>, <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
> "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." http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Issues/BeforeLastCall.html issue 119 "MESSAGE-BODY", and thread started with http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1997q3/0393.html It looks like we didn't actually close this issue well enough, since it's still being raised. Certainly the archive record is that the intent was (for compatibility) to disallow bodies for GET, HEAD and DELETE, but possibly allow bodies on other methods unless explicitly disallowed (for extensibility's sake).
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