The Truth about GET and HTTP Standards, (Tue, Sep 22nd)
On Friday, Xavier talked about the newly introduced HTTP Query method. This new method was introduced to allow "GET" requests that include a body. The main reason for this was that GET requests typically do not contain a body. But what if they do? I did a quick check of a couple of common web servers I had handy, to see what would happen: Apache For this test, I ran Apache 2.4.68 on a Mac. It happily accepted a body with a GET request: % nc -c localhost 8080 GET /cgi-bin/test-cgi HTTP/1.1 Host:…