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middleboxes are free to drop the body of any GET request, and generally do so
by preseinger 3y ago
middleboxes are free to drop the body of any GET request, and generally do so
- adev_ 3y ago> middleboxes are free to drop the body of any GET request, and generally do so Most middlebox will equally drop any HTTP verb which is not whitelisted. Even the extension of WebDAV, which are 15 years old are still commonly blocked.
- preseinger 3y agoblocking a request is fine, the request is stopped, the client gets an error my point is that a middlebox that receives a GET request with a body may drop the body from the request and still forward the request onwards, without the body these are categorically different outcomes