Well, so this is it:

xhr.send( /^P(U|OS)T$/i.test( type ) ? s.data : null );

regards


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Nick Fitzsimons <n...@nickfitz.co.uk>wrote:

>
> 2009/8/13 alx <a.simm...@googlemail.com>:
> >
> > Hi Andrea,
> >
> > not sure if it is allowed to send a payload with the DELETE method,
> > cause the RFC doesn't provide any information.
> >
>
> RFC2616 HTTP 1.1 section 4.3 states that "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."[1]
>
> The only request methods that mention enclosing an entity within the
> request are PUT and POST.
>
> So as DELETE, and everything else but PUT and POST, do _not_ mention
> inclusion of an entity in the request, it is safe to interpret this as
> meaning that PUT and POST are the only methods that allow an
> entity-body.
>
> [1] <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.3>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick.
> --
> Nick Fitzsimons
> http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
>
> >
>

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