Article:		How to Create a REST Protocol
Subject:		DELETE and PUT
Date:		2005-05-11 09:27:42
From:		dbacher987
The issue with using delete and put is that some user agents (notably Safari and some versions of Opera) don't support them from scripting, which means your service becomes inaccessible to users of those agents. You need to provide an alternate mechanism (using POST) of performing delete and put operations. Note: by alternate, I mean implement both, and have the post link invoke delete itself. You can yell about standards until you're blue in the face, etc. but if end users can't run your program, the standard doesn't matter.

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