DELETE method request can't include body

Hi grayger,


As far as I know and HTTP specification confirms this: there is no body (i.e. request entity) to be included with a HTTP DELETE method.

Why would you need body with HTTP DELETE method request?


Cheers!
/Nenad Nikolic a.k.a. Shonzilla

Hi,

Thanks for your reply, but I can't find any statement about DELETE's body from HTTP spec.

There was a similar question, and I agree with the answers.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2996 ... te-request

I need body with DELETE method because additional information of resource that will be deleted is contained in body.

Hi,

soapUI uses HttpClient 3.1 for sending HTTP requests which doesn't seem to allow for the adding of a request entity to DeleteMethods.. if you can find a way around this in their API please let us know and we'll try to integrate it..

sorry for the inconvenience.

regards!

/Ole
eviware.com

I was able to do this by using a POST call and adding the X-HTTP-Method-Override header.

You can set X-HTTP-Method-Override: DELETE which will override you call to change it to the type of request you mention. So with this you can create a POST call with the payload you want and use the header to turn it into a DELETE call.

Hi,

interesting, thanks for your feedback!

/Ole
eviware.com

Hello,

I am bothering with same problem. X-HTTP-Method-Override is not solution for soapUI, because I need to implement it on service side.

For me is soapUI unusable for testing DELETE HTTP request with body.

@Ole: Is there any chance that it will be implemented in soapUI?

Thanks

Marian