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0 pointssilverwind3y ago0 comments

They won't support a new method either.

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derefr3y ago· 2 in thread

But it being an unsupported method will hopefully at least cause the middlebox to generate a 405 error, rather than undefined behavior.

water93y ago

Rather than a 400 error?

derefr3y ago

No, rather than the body being silently ignored in the caching (or even proxying!) logic of some middleboxes, because "since GET will never have a body, for efficiency, we won't bother to check for one."

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