There's another article currently on the first page of HN discussing this issue. That post has a pointer to this [1] stackoverflow with the following quote fro

There's another article currently on the first page of HN discussing this issue. That post has a pointer to this [1] stackoverflow with the following quote from Roy Fielding: Yes. In other words, any HTTP request message is allowed to contain a message body, and thus must parse messages with that in mind. Server semantics for GET, however, are restricted such that a body, if any, has no semantic meaning to the request. The requirements on parsing are separate from the requirements on method semantics. So, yes, you can send a body with GET, and no, it is never useful to do so. This is part of the layered design of HTTP/1.1 that will become clear again once the spec is partitioned (work in progress). ....Roy [1] -- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-request-body http://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-requ...