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

I don't know about Rails specifically, but I frequently build web pages which send DELETE (and PUT) requests, using Javascript. I just use XmlHttpRequest objects to send the request.

For example, if you use jQuery:

have a link that looks like this:

delete

And run this Javascript:

$(function(){
    $('a.delete').click(function(){
        $.ajax(
            {
                url: this.getAttribute('href'),
                type: 'DELETE',
                async: false,
                complete: function(response, status) {
                    if (status == 'success')
                        alert('success!')
                    else
                        alert('Error: the service responded with: ' + response.status + '\n' + response.responseText)
                }
            }
        )
        return false
    })
})

I wrote this example mostly from memory, but I'm pretty sure it'll work....