Are the PUT, DELETE, HEAD, etc methods available in most web browsers?

Question

I\'ve seen a couple questions around here like How to debug RESTful services, which mentions:

Unfortunately that same browser won\'t allow me to test

Answer 1

_method hidden field workaround

Used in Rails and could be adapted to any framework:

• add a hidden _method parameter to any form that is not GET or POST:

  This can be done automatically in frameworks through the HTML creation helper method (e.g. Rails form_tag)

• fix the actual form method to POST (

  )

• processes _method on the server and do exactly as if that method had been sent instead of the actual POST

Rationale / history of why it is not possible: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/114156/why-there-are-no-put-and-delete-methods-in-html-forms