RESTful delete strategy

Question

Let\'s say I have a resource that can have two different behaviors when delete is called

1. The resource is deleted.
2. The resource is moved to the recycl

Answer 1

You could also implement 2. as a POST request instead of DELETE.

POST /myresource

recycle-bin=true...

As in all you're doing is updating the resource to indicate that it is in the recycle-bin.

EDIT: changed method from PUT to POST given a PUT must enclose a complete replacement (or addition) of the resource, whereas clearly here we are only updating a part of the resource.