Re: GET / DELETE request bodies

[Willy Tarreau <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:33:58PM +0100, Roberto Polli wrote:
> >> They have no semantics in the sense that a body cannot change the meaning
> >> of a received request. They are absolutely forbidden to have any impact
> >> whatsoever on the processing or interpretation of the request aside from
> >> the necessity to read and discard the bytes received in order to maintain
> >> the message framing. The only reason we didn't forbid sending a body is
> >> because that would lead to lazy implementations assuming no body would
> >> be sent.
> >>
> >
> > This text on message framing seems clearer to me than what's in the draft,
> > but vague references to "semantics" in web specs drive me nuts. Maybe no
> > one else cares. :)
> >
> 
> I think that the above text should be in the specifications. That will make
> the web a better place.

Well, it is more or less implied when you check 7230 and 7231 together,
but I agree that having such a single prominent sentence somewhere would
make it clear to the casual reader that framing requires to support this
even though you should not expect to rely on that data.

Willy