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/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---