On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Zachary Zolton <[email protected]> wrote: > AFAICT Paul is correct; it seems to be merely an omission from the > HTTP spec that GET requests don't explicitly forbid sending an entity > body. Moreover, if caching proxies don't respect the entity body, it > wont solve my original problem anyways. > > So, it seems the answer would be for my application to better > normalize my documents for efficient querying. (No surprise!) > > Too bad though, that did sound like a fun bite-size patch on which to > practice my Erlang... :^D >
Feel free to submit a patch to add the URL string parameter. Its been oft requested enough that it should probably go in. I'll get to it eventually otherwise. Paul Davis > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> We could also start supporting GET bodies :) >> >> Its not about us supporting GET bodies. Its about everyone else >> supporting them. And by everyone, I mean everyone from http client >> libraries to proxy implementations. >> >> Last I recall on the subject was that GET bodies only arguably exist >> because they're never explicitly forbidden. I'm not particularly >> familiar with all the details though so I could be wrong on that >> point. >> >> Paul Davis >> >
