body for HTTP GET request

[asvetlov]

When aiohttp.request gets GET method with specified data that merges data to url along with params.

I think that's wrong. HTTP protocol standard (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html) says nothing about presence/absence body for GET methods.

Moreover elasticsearch uses GETs with body for some REST API methods: see http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-multi-get.html and http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-multi-search.html#search-multi-search

I guess to always process data as for POST request if specified.

[kxepal]

http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/19
and
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/rest-discuss/conversations/messages/9962

[kxepal]

few more interesting discussions:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2002JulSep/0031.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2007JanMar/0076.html

TL;DR technically, it's ok to send body with GET/DELETE requests. Semantically - it's not. In real world only few uses such "feature".

[fafhrd91]

+1

let's unify 'data' processing for all type of requests

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