Re: [whatwg/fetch] Request with GET/HEAD method cannot have body. (#551) from Zamralik on 2023-10-13 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from October 2023)

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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:37:56 -0700
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> > At the very least, the standard should add new alternative standard verbs that are similar to GET and HEAD in meaning, but support having a body.
> 
> Including a body in a GET request, is already supported in the standard

Indeed it is, but the whatwg seems hellbent in stubornly rejecting that standard use because it could mess up with legacy code that assume otherwise.

Hence why the least would be to do the same thing that was done with HTTP, when codes 307/308 were added as alternative to 301/302.

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