AFAICT Paul is correct; it seems to be merely an omission from the HTTP spec that GET requests don't explicitly forbid sending an entity body. Moreover, if caching proxies don't respect the entity body, it wont solve my original problem anyways.
So, it seems the answer would be for my application to better normalize my documents for efficient querying. (No surprise!) Too bad though, that did sound like a fun bite-size patch on which to practice my Erlang... :^D On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >> We could also start supporting GET bodies :) > > Its not about us supporting GET bodies. Its about everyone else > supporting them. And by everyone, I mean everyone from http client > libraries to proxy implementations. > > Last I recall on the subject was that GET bodies only arguably exist > because they're never explicitly forbidden. I'm not particularly > familiar with all the details though so I could be wrong on that > point. > > Paul Davis >
