HTTP client doesn't support DELETE method?

[David King]

When I try to use the DELETE method with the HTTP client, I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/dking/src/reddit/rdb/rdbclient.py", line 154, in delete
resp = self.http.fetch(req)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tornado/httpclient.py", line 63, in fetch
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tornado/httpclient.py", line 372, in _curl_setup_request
KeyError: 'DELETE'

It looks like this is happening here (http://github.com/facebook/tornado/blob/master/tornado/httpclient.py#L364):

curl_options = {
"GET": pycurl.HTTPGET,
"POST": pycurl.POST,
"PUT": pycurl.UPLOAD,
"HEAD": pycurl.NOBODY,
}

for o in curl_options.values():
curl.setopt(o, False)
curl.setopt(curl_options[request.method], True)

Is this a quick-fix, or does pycurl just not support the method?

[Gabriel Farrell]

The DELETE method is supported by pycurl in the same way it supports
any other libcurl option. The documentation for DELETE via curl is at
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTCUSTOMREQUEST,
where they note:

This is useful for doing DELETE or other more or less obscure HTTP requests.

If you would like to add the functionality to Tornado, you could use
something similar to
http://hg.basho.com/riak/src/tip/client_lib/jiak.py#cl-110 in that
section of httpclient.py you pointed to.

[Bret Taylor]

We should fix this. Mind filing a bug in github, David?

[David King]

> We should fix this. Mind filing a bug in github, David?

Done. http://github.com/facebook/tornado/issues/#issue/40