GET request with body

Is it possible to send a GET request that includes a body in the RequestMessage?

I've tried the following code

request = RequestMessage;
request.Body = MessageBody;
request.Body.Data = struct('Name1', 'value1', 'Name2', 'value2');
request.Method = 'get';
uri = URI('http://127.0.0.1/my/api');
[response, completedReq, history] = send(request, uri);

Every time I try this, I get the following response:

Warning: Body unexpected in message using request method GET.

Despite this just being a warning, my web request seems to never even send. Suppressing warnings by doing warnings('off') didn't make a difference.

Additionally, I have tried using webread and webwrite instead of send, but have not had any luck there as well.

Any ideas on how to get this working?

Answer 1

[Abhisek Pradhan]

As per my knowledge a request message containing a Body property normally uses a method such as 'PUT' or 'POST. But this is not something which is enforced. Try using POST or PUT and see if it works.

[Austin O'Connell]

POST and PUT both work as expected.

My confusion was the sentence from the documentation here which states, "Normally, a 'GET' request does not contain data, but the method sends the Body regardless of the RequestMethod." I was under the assumption that we would still be able to send a GET request with a body.

Luckily in my case I have control over the API, so I'll update my API to use a POST instead of GET. Thanks for the help.