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<h1 id="browser-based-put-delete">Browser based PUT &amp; DELETE</h1>
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<p>"There are two noncontroversial uses for overloaded POST. The first is to <em>simulate</em> HTTP's uniform interface for clients like web browsers that don't support PUT or DELETE"</p>
<p>&mdash; <a href="1">RESTful Web Services</a>, Leonard Richardson &amp; Sam Ruby.</p>
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<h2 id="overloading-the-http-method">Overloading the HTTP method</h2>
<p><strong>TODO: Preamble.</strong> Note that this is the same strategy as is used in <a href="2">Ruby on Rails</a>.</p>
<p>For example, given the following form:</p>
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<pre class="prettyprint lang-py"><code>&lt;form action="/news-items/5" method="POST"&gt;
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&lt;input type="hidden" name="_method" value="DELETE"&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;
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<p><code>request.method</code> would return <code>"DELETE"</code>.</p>
<h2 id="overloading-the-http-content-type">Overloading the HTTP content type</h2>
<p>Browser-based submission of content types other than form are supported by using form fields named <code>_content</code> and <code>_content_type</code>:</p>
<p>For example, given the following form:</p>
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<pre class="prettyprint lang-py"><code>&lt;form action="/news-items/5" method="PUT"&gt;
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&lt;input type="hidden" name="_content_type" value="application/json"&gt;
&lt;input name="_content" value="{'count': 1}"&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;
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<p><code>request.content_type</code> would return <code>"application/json"</code>, and <code>request.content</code> would return <code>"{'count': 1}"</code></p>
<h2 id="why-not-just-use-javascript">Why not just use Javascript?</h2>
<p><strong>[TODO]</strong></p>
<h2 id="doesnt-html5-support-put-and-delete-forms">Doesn't HTML5 support PUT and DELETE forms?</h2>
<p>Nope. It was at one point intended to support <code>PUT</code> and <code>DELETE</code> forms, but was later <a href="3">dropped from the spec</a>. There remains <a href="4">ongoing discussion</a> about adding support for <code>PUT</code> and <code>DELETE</code>, as well as how to support content-types other than form-encoded data.</p>
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