How to make Apache Tomcat accept DELETE method
I'm working on a project of RESTful web services, i'm using Apache Tomcat and JAX-RS. I want to accept DELETE requests from client but whenever i send a DELETE request from Advanced REST client Chrome plugin it gives response code 403 Forbidden. So how can i make Apche Tomcat accept DELETE request? Tomcat was blocking DELETE methods for me because of my CORS filters. I needed new filters registered in my web.xml file. Here's an example of a very permissive one: <filter> <filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.CorsFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param