How do you send a request with the “DELETE” HTTP verb?

Question

I\'d like to create a link in a view within a Rails application that does this...

DELETE /sessions

How would I do that.

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Answer 1

Correct, browsers don't actually support sending delete requests. The accepted convention of many web frameworks is to send a _method parameter set to 'DELETE', and use a POST request.

Here's an example in Rails:

<%= link_to 'log out', session_path, :method => :delete %>

You may want to have a look at Restful Authentication.