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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.rosa at 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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