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Jon Moore commented on HTTPCLIENT-1124:
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I re-read RFC2616 and could not find a prohibition against sending bodies on
the non-enclosing methods (GET, HEAD, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS), so technically
there's nothing non-compliant about doing that (it doesn't violate any MUSTs or
SHOULDs).
That said, it's pretty weird to want to do that, based on the described
semantics. In fact, it's so weird, HTTP-bis explicitly says a server should
*ignore* those bodies. So why send them in common usage? I don't see a need to
change the existing common-case implementations.
So my opinion is that I agree with Alexey *and* Oleg: HTTP permits you to send
bodies on these requests if for some strange reason you want to, and you can
use a BasicHttpEntityEnclosingRequest if you want to do that. So, not a bug.
> Can't send request body with HTTP methods other than POST and PUT
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> Key: HTTPCLIENT-1124
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1124
> Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: HttpClient
> Affects Versions: 4.1.2
> Reporter: Alexey Levan
> Priority: Minor
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> I'd like to have a possibility to send an HttpEntity regardless of method of
> request. The HTTP spec doesn't prohibit that (AFAIK, even GET requests with
> body are allowed), and any spec-compliant implementation shouldn't do it
> either. I suggest merging HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase with
> HttpRequestBase, since there's really no reason to make this artifical
> restriction.
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