On 4/21/06, Mark Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > RFC2616, section 4.3; > > "A message-body MUST NOT be included in a request if the > specification of the request method (section 5.1.1) does not allow > sending an entity-body in requests. "
Right. > > GET, HEAD and DELETE do not allow for an entity-body in requests. You'd think so, wouldn't you? But that's not the case; they all permit them. > Granted, it's not incredibly well-specified, but are you seriously > suggesting that bodies should be allowed on GETs? Why not? HTTP messages are self-descriptive with respect to their length and presence or absence of a body, independent of the request method (except for HEAD responses). We wouldn't want to profile HTTP, would we? 8-) Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
