On 05/11/2015 02:05 PM, Dean Troyer wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Rosa, Andrea (HP Cloud Services) < > andrea.r...@hp.com> wrote: > >>> Agreed. Violating the HTTP spec is something that should be avoided. >> >> Actually it is not violating the HTTP spec, from RFC: >> " A payload within a DELETE request message has no defined semantics; >> sending a payload body on a DELETE request might cause some existing >> implementations to reject the request." >> >> The RFC prohibit the use of a body just for the TRACE: >> " A client MUST NOT send a message body in a TRACE request." >> > > > When playing in undefined areas such as this it is best to keep in ming Jon > Postel's RFC 1122 principle: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative > in what you send". > > I'll put it this way: An RFC not prohibiting something does not make it a > good idea. This is not how we build a robust API that developers and user > can easily adopt.
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