PUT and DELETE requests

[jwleeman]

Does anyone know how to send PUT or DELETE HTTP requests in Javascript ? I'm using jQuery as well,.. don't know if there's any way to do it through that.

Thanks for any insight offered!

[rnd me]

IO gets and puts:

function IO(U, V) {
    var X = !window.XMLHttpRequest ? new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP') : new XMLHttpRequest();
    X.open(V ? 'PUT' : 'GET', U, !1);
    X.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html')
    X.send(V ? V : '');
return X.responseText;
}

this deletes a url:

function del(U, V) {
    var X = !window.XMLHttpRequest ? new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP') : new XMLHttpRequest();
    X.open( 'DELETE', U, false);
    X.send('');
return X.status;
}

[jwleeman]

Thanks for the reply.

The URL for my PUT request is actually doing some server-side logic and then redirecting to a new URL.

I tried the above code, and it looks like it executes an AJAX request.. i.e. asynchronous,.. so it's not changing the web page.

I guess what I'm looking for is just a straight synchronous request to a URL using a method of 'PUT', so something like this:

window.location.href = (some URL);

..but that would execute it with a method of 'PUT' instead of 'GET'.

[rnd me]

I guess what I'm looking for is just a straight synchronous request to a URL using a method of 'PUT', so something like this:

window.location.href = (some URL);

..but that would execute it with a method of 'PUT' instead of 'GET'.

page requests always use GET.
i've never heard of doing what you request, nor seen code to support it.