I've had a similar interview where I was interviewing and this came up, the interviewee didn't pass but it wasn't because they said GETs could have bodies. That was just one of the reasons, and they would've passed if that was the only "wrong" answer.
If they had explained that you could indeed have a body in a GET request, even if it went against the spec and you'd probably have to modify you existing body parser to comply, I would have accepted the answer as "correct". What matters is if you can explain your answer, not if you can answer yes or no questions.
In the end they didn't explain their reasoning and I just said that GETs can indeed have a body, but it goes against the spec, so it's gonna be hard unless "you own the entire stack", like a parallel comment said here. This way they have a base to explore more info later and improve for their next interview.
ranguna|4 years ago
I've had a similar interview where I was interviewing and this came up, the interviewee didn't pass but it wasn't because they said GETs could have bodies. That was just one of the reasons, and they would've passed if that was the only "wrong" answer.
If they had explained that you could indeed have a body in a GET request, even if it went against the spec and you'd probably have to modify you existing body parser to comply, I would have accepted the answer as "correct". What matters is if you can explain your answer, not if you can answer yes or no questions.
In the end they didn't explain their reasoning and I just said that GETs can indeed have a body, but it goes against the spec, so it's gonna be hard unless "you own the entire stack", like a parallel comment said here. This way they have a base to explore more info later and improve for their next interview.