[html5] PUT and DELETE methods in html5 forms

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Anthony Ettinger wrote:
> >
> > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#for-http
> 
> I am curious why nything other than get or post is needed. Certainly the 
> action "CRUD" etc. can be any number of things....why have a seperate 
> "delete" method?

GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE are the four main verbs in HTTP 1.1.

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