Can I add body to DELETE request?
# ktorf
Fail
08/27/2019, 8:52 AMCan I add body to DELETE request?
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Bino
08/27/2019, 9:01 AMb
Big Chungus
08/27/2019, 9:03 AMYou can, but you shouldn't
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Bino
08/27/2019, 9:05 AMSorry, the better reference would be this:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.5
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Fail
08/27/2019, 9:10 AMYes, I know, but I can't say it to my backend developers
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Bino
08/27/2019, 9:11 AMSo technically there is no limitation from the http spec as I can see so far.
The message body might be remove from some proxies. But perhaps @Big Chungus can tell some reasons why you shouldn’t
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Sergey Bondari
08/27/2019, 5:10 PMSay it to your backend developers. Undefined behavior for DELETE payload may also mean for example, that a proxy on the way may just drop it.
Sergey Bondari
08/27/2019, 5:11 PMSuch APIs are must be automatically vetoed during review and sent back to engineering to fix
Sergey Bondari
08/27/2019, 5:12 PMAlso libraries are typically not supporting it, so it will always be a pain for devs to connect to such platform
Sergey Bondari
08/27/2019, 5:12 PMYour developers are just trying to be REST fancy, without solving a real functional problem
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Big Chungus
08/27/2019, 5:19 PM@Bino, it's just REST conventions. Nothing prevents you from doing so
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