GET request with body

[Nicholas Hagen]

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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