Can one send a PUT or DELETE HTTP request using the browser? [duplicate]

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Are the PUT, DELETE, HEAD, etc methods available in most web browsers?

How does one tell a web browser to send a PUT or DELETE request? I know I can tell it to send a POST or GET request by changing the form method property. It seems that this feature wouldn't be hard to implement.

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Are browsers really not implementing PUT and DELETE? If so, why? What are the design considerations that go into this? Furthermore, are there plans in the future for these features to be integrated into browsers and other web standards?

Are major browsers alre开发者_开发百科ady implementing the full set of HTTP features? And if they are, how do I ask them to use those features?

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It is not about browsers but about version of HTML used to define the form - both HTML 4.01 a XHTML 1.0 (I'm not sure about HTML 5) supports only GET and POST as method of HTML form. If you want to use PUT and DELETE you must either use JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest directly or some JavaScript library which simplifies this (like jQuery).