Micah Cowan <[email protected]> writes: >> I am told that interactive clients issue GET requests with request >> bodies when doing AJAX. If that is indeed the case, supporting it in >> Wget might be genuinely useful. > > Really? I'll be mildly shocked if that's the case, since that makes some > silly assumptions about the server's (and client's!) capabilities, and > is somewhat outside the bounds of what's specified for HTTP.
Looking at the HTTP/1.1 RFC, I don't see that GET requests are required to have empty bodies. > But of course, you're right: if this is something that is being used > for Ajax, especially if it's widespread, then it's something to > consider for Wget. If anyone can find evidence of this practice > being/becoming mainstream (or approaching it, etc), please post it > here. I'll try to find a specific reference. I believe it had to do with sending SOAP requests, as mentioned here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipgetr.html
