Lighttpd

Hi,

Lighttpd refuse any HTTP Get request that contains message-header Content-Length.
lighttpd 1.4.26: request.c +1123

   switch(con->request.http_method) {
   case HTTP_METHOD_GET:
   case HTTP_METHOD_HEAD:
      /* content-length is forbidden for those */
      if (con_length_set && con->request.content_length != 0) {
         /* content-length is missing */
         log_error_write(srv, __FILE__, __LINE__, "s",
               "GET/HEAD with content-length -> 400");

         con->keep_alive = 0;
         con->http_status = 400;
         return 0;
      }
      break;

RFC 2616 Section 4.3 Specifies:

The presence of a message-body in a request is signaled by the
inclusion of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding header field in
the request's message-headers. A message-body MUST NOT be included in
a request if the specification of the request method (section 5.1.1)
does not allow sending an entity-body in requests.

However, this RFC doesn't forbid the presence of a message-body in a HTTP Get request.

Jeff Mogul, one of the authors listed on the HTTP/1.1 specification, also doesn't know for sure about a GET request with a body ( http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2006AprJun/0103.html ) So apparently the specs didn't cover this part.

According to my tests, Apache httpd seems to support it.

Is there any reason why lighttpd doesn't support sending body using a GET request ?

Thanks

Morti.