GET request with body

[Adam Fisk]

I agree the 2616 is surprisingly vague on this point. Then again, why
would you ever want to include a body in GET request? I can't think of
any scenario where that's a good idea. POST or PUT seems more
appropriate.

-Adam


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Nicholas Hagen
<nicholas.hagen at znetdevelopment.com> wrote:
> Actually, from my interpretation of the HTTP 1.1 protocol, HTTP
> servers are expected to permit the body and just ignore it:
>
>  From section 4.3 of http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
>
> 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.
> Also note that the spec does not allow message body in HEAD requests
> but says they are ignored for HTTP 1.1 but may be used in a future
> HTTP spec.  Being the GET request really does not specify either
> context (included or not included), I would say that the HTTP spec
> would follow in line with HEAD and say it is allowed and may be used
> in a future extension of the protocol.  That's my guess why section
> 4.3 says that servers should read it and just ignore it.
>
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> On Sep 30, 2009, at 1:50 AM, Frederic Bregier wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Shay,
>>
>> I'm not totally a specialist, but in this case I think there are two
>> answers:
>>
>> 1) the HTTP protocol supposes that no body is transfered when a GET
>> request
>> occurs. I talk of course about the request, not the answer which
>> always
>> could have a body...
>>
>> 2) the http codec in Netty seems to be permissive, that is to say
>> that if a
>> GET request occurs, it could have a body however. But it is not
>> correct from
>> the HTTP protocol.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Frederic
>>
>>
>> Shay Banon wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  I am using netty http support and wanted to ask if netty supports
>>> GET
>>> operation with body (the http spec seems to be vague about that).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Shay
>>>
>>
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