Allow suppression of body in GET requests

I've been having some issues with tastypie/drest on my lighttpd/fcgi based integration django deployment. Lighttpd seems to immediately reject any API GET requests that have a body.
Not sure if a change in drest is actually warranted - I would first ask if there's a good reason for including a body in GET requests is required? Seems like currently the same parameters are passed in via the URL and via the body. Suppressing the body seems to work fine with Tastypie, not sure about other REST implementations though.
I haven't had much luck googling for configuration changes to lighttpd that might help me.
Any help on this would be much appreciated,
Using drest with tastypie has been pretty pain free really, keep up the good work,
Oliver