- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 15:29:33 -0500
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>, public-webapi@w3.org
On 12/7/07, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > > Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > >> Is it conforming for a UA to drop the body for GET requests? > > > > Not as far as I can tell. > > I'd like to request that this be changed, then. Otherwise you're effectively > requiring UAs to rewrite their HTTP layers to support entity-bodies with GET > requests (or switch to using different HTTP libraries, etc). If you're using a library which doesn't support entity bodies on GET, then that can only be because it special cases GET when it shouldn't. Sounds like a bug to me. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
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