Re: Request methods that allow an entity-body

Which agrees with the point that this was incompletely specified in the
RFC. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2002JulSep/0026.html

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Mark Baker wrote:

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> This question pops up every few years.  Read this thread over;
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> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2002JulSep/thread.html#msg24
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> Mark.
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> On 11/29/07, Scott Nichol <snicholnews@scottnichol.com> wrote:
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> > Section 4.3 states
> >
> > <quote>
> > 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.
> > </quote>
> >
> > I do not see any place in the specification where it says that any
> > request does not allow sending an entity-body.  I might guess that GET
> > and HEAD do not allow an entity-body, but isn't the spec supposed to
> > remove guesswork?  The spec would be better if, for each request method,
> > it were stated whether or not an entity-body is allowed.
> >
> > Scott Nichol
> >
> >
> >
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