Re: [PATCH] chunked requests

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.
Received on Tue Jul 14 2009 - 00:51:14 MDT