support for DELETE and PUT verb via POST

[vaibhav]

my app is in webos environment and like some browsers it doesn't support PUT or DELETE request, is there a workaround available using POST instead  like GDATA API or emulated by rails. specifically DELETE request is not available and will be changed to PUT.

[Nathan Esquenazi]

The approach used by Rails should work, utilizing a POST with a "_method" parameter with the value as the method. Try that and let us know if you run into any problems.

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Nathan Esquenazi
Lead Platform Engineer

Miso (gomiso.com)

[vaibhav mishra]

I poster a reply yeterday but somehow it got lost or something, here is the problem, it is not working, here is my request


this.method = 'POST';
    var url = 'http://gomiso.com/api/oauth/v1/media/favorites.json';
    this.request_parameters = 'media_id='+this.media.id;
    this.request_parameters = this.request_parameters+'&_method=delete';
    this.signHeader(this.request_parameters, url);
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.open("POST", url, true);
    xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
    xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', this.authHeader)
    xhr.onreadystatechange = function(evt){
        if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
            if ((''+xhr.status).indexOf('200')>=0) {
                   //code
            }
            else {
            }
        }
    }
.bind(this);
xhr.send(this.request_parameters);

[Nathan Esquenazi]

That is too bad, I feel we may have to investigate this, I can
understand that sending a POST with the _method parameter should act
the same way as a normal PUT or DELETE. I guess for some reason this
is currently not working. We will check this out and get back to you.