- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:08:48 +1100
- To: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Cc: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, "HTTP Working Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Re GET, see http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/19 The only exception method is HEAD, as per http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-11#section-3.3 On 19/10/2010, at 8:07 PM, Eric J. Bowman wrote: > "Anne van Kesteren" wrote: >> >> Yeah, for XMLHttpRequest we had to special case GET/HEAD to omit any >> passed request entity bodies. We do not want to add more methods >> there. >> > > OK, I understand that. But does this mean that the no-entity-body > requirement for GET/HEAD is a historical mistake, or was there some > reason for parsing these requests differently? What I'm experimenting > with is an IDLE method (IMAP has one) very similar to GET, so I'm > trying to understand why I can't just copy the definition of GET as a > starting point. I'm convinced by the responses *not* to do that, but > wondering what gotcha may be lurking. > > -Eric -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
Received on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:09:27 UTC