On 07/13/2009 06:39 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 13:40 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: >> a) Nothing of this should be unique to POST/PUT. HTTP message format >> is the same for all requests. For what it's worth even a GET/HEAD >> requests MAY contain a meaningless chunked entity. > > Ermm.. > > 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." > > Neither GET nor HEAD specify an entity-body. (Is there some reference I'm > missing?)
"does not allow" is not the same as "does not specify". Those who think that what is not forbidden is allowed, say that GET requests may have a body... It would be nice for 2616bis to clarify that (one way or another), but they are probably focusing on more important stuff. Cheers, Alex.
