Re: [fetch] Proposal: Support GET bodies (#83) from Anne van Kesteren on 2015-07-16 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from July 2015)

From: Anne van Kesteren <notifications@github.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 00:14:53 -0700
To: whatwg/fetch <fetch@noreply.github.com>
Message-ID: <whatwg/fetch/issues/83/121855277@github.com>

It seems this restriction was added here for `GET`, and later `HEAD`:
* http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/Overview.src.html.diff?r1=1.165;r2=1.166;f=h
* http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/Overview.src.html.diff?r1=1.182;r2=1.183;f=h

Based on this thread:
* https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2007Dec/thread.html#msg8

Concerns are networking libraries used by user agents, unsuspecting servers, RFC conformance (now clarified), ... Convincing those skeptical in that thread that this is now a good idea would be a good start.

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