Restful way for deleting a bunch of items

Question

In wiki article for REST it is indicated that if you use http://example.com/resources DELETE, that means you are deleting the entire collection.

If you use http://ex

Answer 1

As there is no 'proper' way to do this, what I have done in the past is:

send DELETE to http://example.com/something with xml or json encoded data in the body.

when you receive the request, check for DELETE, if true, then read the body for the ones to be deleted.