Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

They won't support a new method either.



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


Rather than a 400 error?


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."




Consider applying for YC's Spring batch! Applications are open till Feb 11.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: