[html5] PUT and DELETE methods in html5 forms

Andrew Baine andrew.baine at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 13:35:02 PDT 2007


Thanks so much for the link Jon.  Question answered.

Best, Andrew


On 8/24/07, Jon Barnett <jonbarnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/24/07, Andrew Baine <andrew.baine at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I was wondering if it will be specified how a client will construct
> > requests from forms with method="PUT" and method="DELETE".  I understand
> how
> > method="GET" form information is encoded into the query string and
> > method="POST" form information is encoded into the message body, but I
> was
> > wondering about PUT and DELETE.  How is form information to be encoded
> in
> > forms with these methods -- like GET, POST, or some other way?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help,
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
>
> It's specified differently based on the type of URI (http, ftp, file,
> etc), but you'd be interested in starting here:
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#for-http
>
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