<form:form method="DELETE" ... >

[ncochard]

Hello

I am new to spring MVC, and I am trying to set up a small application to understand the framework.

I would like to experiment other HTTP methods than GET and POST. I have tried to set up the following form in my view:

<form id="command" action="myPage.htm" method="DELETE">
	<input type="submit" value="Delete" />
</form>

This does not work. When I click on the "Delete" button, the server receive a GET rather then a DELETE...

I use

• Tomcat v6.0
• jre1.6.0_03
• spring-framework-2.5.3

Is there anything special to set up to support DELETE / PUT / etc?

Thank you for any help

Best regards

Nicolas

[Marten Deinum]

You cannot. The only 2 supported methods on a form are GET & POST. If you type in anything elkse then POST you will get a GET (which is what is happening in your case).

[ncochard]

Thank you very much for the quick reply.

I was curious about this after reading about REST. But I guess I took this out of context, see the quote below wikipedia:

The other HTTP methods (i.e. other than GET and POST) are not available in HTML 4.1 or XHTML 1.0.

Sorry for the dumb question.