Ian Hickson schrieb:
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Julian Reschke wrote:
it's very hard for this group and the browser vendors to agree upon
behaviour. E.g. should an entity-body be passed with the verb? How
should the browser handle content negotiation?
Disagreement here. XHR implementations do not need any special knowledge
about this. If a client supplies a request body, it should be sent. No
problem here.
Wouldn't sending a body with a method that doesn't allow a body result in
allowing request smuggling?
Well, in only in a broken implementation. See
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.4.3>:
"The presence of a message-body in a request is signaled by the
inclusion of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding header field in the
request's message-headers. 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. A server SHOULD read and
forward a message-body on any request; if the request method does not
include defined semantics for an entity-body, then the message-body
SHOULD be ignored when handling the request."
Best regards, Julian
