Delete multiple records using REST

Question

What is the REST-ful way of deleting multiple items?

My use case is that I have a Backbone Collection wherein I need to be able to delete multiple items at once. The

Answer 1

If GET /records?filteringCriteria returns array of all records matching the criteria, then DELETE /records?filteringCriteria could delete all such records.

In this case the answer to your question would be DELETE /records?id=1&id=2&id=3.