[smizell]

Total guess, but they may mean request bodies instead of response since GET and DELETE normally don't have request bodies.

However, I'm not sure there is a definitive answer on if that's true from an HTTP perspective. I also couldn't find it in a skimming of the OpenAPI 3.0 spec.

In the end, REST [1] itself does not prescribe either condition and the HTTP 1.1 [2] spec doesn't either.

> A payload within a GET request message has no defined semantics; sending a payload body on a GET request might cause some existing implementations to reject the request.

[1] https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc... [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.1

[johnhenry]

I tend to agree with the interpretation given here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-requ... -- that if a GET request contains a body, the server should ignore it in order to stay compliant with the spec.