The current HTTP 1.1 spec revision
(http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/draft-lafon-rfc2616bis-03.txt)
states in section 4.3
<quote>
The presence of a message-body in a request is signaled by the
inclusion of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding header field in
the request's message-headers. 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.
</quote>
Based on my understanding of HTTP, I would assume this means that a GET
request cannot have a Content-Length header. However, I cannot find any
place in the spec that says the GET request method does not allow
sending of an entity-body.
Am I missing something in the spec?
Does a GET request allow an entity-body?
Scott Nichol
