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<h2 id="browser-based-put-delete-etc">Browser based PUT, DELETE, etc...</h2>
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<p>REST framework supports browser-based <code>PUT</code>, <code>DELETE</code> and other methods, by
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overloading <code>POST</code> requests using a hidden form field.</p>
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<p>Note that this is the same strategy as is used in <a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/form_helpers.html#how-do-forms-with-put-or-delete-methods-work">Ruby on Rails</a>.</p>
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<p>REST framework also supports method overriding via the semi-standard <code>X-HTTP-Method-Override</code> header. This can be useful if you are working with non-form content such as JSON and are working with an older web server and/or hosting provider that doesn't recognise particular HTTP methods such as <code>PATCH</code>. For example <a href="https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=400724">Amazon Web Services ELB</a>.</p>
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<p>To use it, make a <code>POST</code> request, setting the <code>X-HTTP-Method-Override</code> header.</p>
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was later <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#changes-2010-06-24">dropped from the spec</a>. There remains
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