diff --git a/packages/playwright-core/src/server/fetch.ts b/packages/playwright-core/src/server/fetch.ts
index 0fcf72eaf8..9d3eae30a5 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-core/src/server/fetch.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-core/src/server/fetch.ts
@@ -176,11 +176,7 @@ export abstract class APIRequestContext extends SdkObject {
         requestUrl.searchParams.set(name, value);
     }
 
-    let postData: Buffer | undefined;
-    if (['POST', 'PUT', 'PATCH', 'DELETE'].includes(method))
-      postData = serializePostData(params, headers);
-    else if (params.postData || params.jsonData || params.formData || params.multipartData)
-      throw new Error(`Method ${method} does not accept post data`);
+    const postData = serializePostData(params, headers);
     if (postData)
       headers['content-length'] = String(postData.byteLength);
     const controller = new ProgressController(metadata, this);
diff --git a/tests/library/browsercontext-fetch.spec.ts b/tests/library/browsercontext-fetch.spec.ts
index 29630eabb7..55d3a64a64 100644
--- a/tests/library/browsercontext-fetch.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/library/browsercontext-fetch.spec.ts
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ it('should return error with wrong credentials', async ({ context, server }) =>
   expect(response2.status()).toBe(401);
 });
 
-for (const method of ['delete', 'patch', 'post', 'put']) {
+for (const method of ['delete', 'get', 'head', 'patch', 'post', 'put']) {
   it(`${method} should support post data`, async ({ context, server }) => {
     const [request, response] = await Promise.all([
       server.waitForRequest('/simple.json'),
@@ -876,16 +876,6 @@ it('should throw nice error on unsupported data type', async function({ context,
   expect(error.message).toContain(`Unexpected 'data' type`);
 });
 
-it('should throw when data passed for unsupported request', async function({ context, server }) {
-  const error = await context.request.fetch(server.EMPTY_PAGE, {
-    method: 'GET',
-    data: {
-      foo: 'bar'
-    }
-  }).catch(e => e);
-  expect(error.message).toContain(`Method GET does not accept post data`);
-});
-
 it('context request should export same storage state as context', async ({ context, page, server }) => {
   server.setRoute('/setcookie.html', (req, res) => {
     res.setHeader('Set-Cookie', ['a=b', 'c=d']);