- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:45:06 -0400
- To: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>
- Cc: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On 4/21/06, Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > > RFC2616, section 4.3; > > "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. " Right. > > GET, HEAD and DELETE do not allow for an entity-body in requests. You'd think so, wouldn't you? But that's not the case; they all permit them. > Granted, it's not incredibly well-specified, but are you seriously > suggesting that bodies should be allowed on GETs? Why not? HTTP messages are self-descriptive with respect to their length and presence or absence of a body, independent of the request method (except for HEAD responses). We wouldn't want to profile HTTP, would we? 8-) Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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