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Asked: 2026-05-17T16:54:11+00:00

Greetings all, I’ve been told by co-workers that the GET method is different in

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Greetings all,

I’ve been told by co-workers that the GET method is different in HTTP 1.0 and 1.1.

The way it was explained to me was that in HTTP 1.0 GET does not have a body, ergo you cannot add additional information in the body. All of the variables have to be specified in the URI as CGI type variables.

However, in HTTP 1.0 GET allows a body, so one could specify variables using XML (or whatever) in the body of the GET message.

Is this true? I’ve crawled the web looking for HTTP 1.0/1.1 documents, comparisons and otherwise, but I’ve never found the above statements? If it is true, can you point me to a reference so I can study up on it?

What about the other methods: PUT, POST and DELETE? Are the same or different between 1.0 and 1.1?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t think any method definitions changed.

    Technically, you could have a request body for GET, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea, or that it’ll work with all libraries/intermediaries/servers.

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